deserts
- present tense form of desert (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Byron Jones, horticulturalist at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, grows a host of “unthirsty” botanical marvels in the Deserts and Baja Gardens, from sedum and cactuses to agaves and yuccas.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
IOM said that nearly half of the deaths recorded last year were linked to the crossing of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts.
From Reuters • Sep. 12, 2023
Deserts and mountains of Southern California and southern Nevada are expected to be hit hardest by heavy rains as Hurricane Hilary weakens into a tropical storm.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2023
Deserts are the source of most of the dust traveling around the world.
From The Verge • Jul. 15, 2022
It is these monsoons that work out the problem we have in hand; and it is the Great Deserts alluded to that produce the monsoons.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
