Below you will find example sentences with "desert island". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Desert Island in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: desert
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "desert island" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 4 s desert island discs, 4 s desert island discs chisholm, discs, radio and mount stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with vancouver island, big island, lagos island, desert storm and high desert, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with desert island
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
We basically went to an island for the day, like a desert island. (13 words)
Lauren Laverne, host of the radio show “Desert Island Discs,” asked Moss 2022. (13 words)
Annie Nightingale is on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 at 11am today. (13 words)
It’s hard to improve on what is possibly my desert island fast food item, but as a fan of spicy cuisine, I couldn’t help but wish there was a way to kick them up a notch aside from the three packets of buffalo sauce I got with every order. (51 words)
And if this contest were, say, an Internet poll asking which of them you would like to be stuck on a desert island with, the results would be more interesting and the votes cast would say more about us than the nominees. (42 words)
When a couple of bullies accidentally turn Morty into a yacht, they take him out on the high seas; when he turns back into a boy, all three of them are stranded on a desert island together. (37 words)
Another added, “Phillip Schofield on a desert island for ten days in his TV comeback? (15 words)
Example sentences (20)
We basically went to an island for the day, like a desert island.
The term desert island is often used incorrectly to refer to a deserted Island.
And on an especially clear day, you can see even farther, to the mountains of Mount Desert Island.
Antiques Roadshow made Henry a celebrity on the lecture circuit and he made guest appearances on all manner of TV and Radio shows including Desert Island Discs, The Archers and The Green Green Grass.
Dango appeared on Cultaholic’s Desert Island Graps podcast and talked about his with the company, noting that Myers suggested him to be Myers’ surprise opponent at Bound For Glory.
He was academically bright, loved reading (although he likes to play this down, saying on Desert Island Discs that his book of choice would be the Argos catalogue).
When a couple of bullies accidentally turn Morty into a yacht, they take him out on the high seas; when he turns back into a boy, all three of them are stranded on a desert island together.
Another added, “Phillip Schofield on a desert island for ten days in his TV comeback?
At the same time, the show doesn't pretend that social factors like wealth and class would magically cease to matter among a group of castaways shipwrecked on a remote desert island.
I started a new approach to the story of the ten kids stranded on a desert island, but by the time I had finished a draft, I had matured beyond the first pages.
Kirsty first temporarily stepped down from Desert Island Discs in August 2018 before announcing her permanent departure the following year, with taking over as host.
Lauren Laverne, host of the radio show “Desert Island Discs,” asked Moss 2022.
Mount Desert Island Hospital, which has become busier as the local tourism industry has grown, has received state approval to pursue a $42 million expansion and renovation.
The 59-year-old spoke about receiving more racial hatred since becoming a more prominent and “visible” presenter during an interview with Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.
And if this contest were, say, an Internet poll asking which of them you would like to be stuck on a desert island with, the results would be more interesting and the votes cast would say more about us than the nominees.
Annie Nightingale is on Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 at 11am today.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Chisholm told host Lauren Laverne that becoming a mother had “changed” her for the better.
Art Blank, CEO of Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, said Maine hospitals lost an estimated $600 million in revenue after many procedures were delayed.
It’s hard to improve on what is possibly my desert island fast food item, but as a fan of spicy cuisine, I couldn’t help but wish there was a way to kick them up a notch aside from the three packets of buffalo sauce I got with every order.
To take his mind off the intense shooting, Ryan Reynolds would retreat to his hotel room and reread passages from what he has called his “desert island” book, the John Kennedy Toole classic, A Confederacy Of Dunces.