Example Sentences

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Cool as cucumber seltzer, the hometown favorites helped the still-gathering crowd beat the midday heat as temperatures approached 80 degrees — desertlike conditions for resident mossbacks.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2023

The landscape was barren and desertlike, the heat intense even at night.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

With the Osoyoos Indian Band as majority owner, Nk’Mip features Native American culture on a desertlike complex that includes a native cultural center and a conference center resort.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2018

The areas that once had been savanna were becoming more desertlike.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

It went positively desertlike when Taryn waggled her eyebrows at Ivy and wove her arm through Drew’s, leaving Ivy and June alone.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake