Desert island

//ˈdɛz.ɚt.aɪlənd//

"Desert island" in a Sentence (7 examples)

What would I take with me to a desert island?

Desert islands cannot harbour treachery, even from the enemy hidden within man himself.

Why are you marooning me on a desert island? It's probably full of guano. Can't I go somewhere nice?

No, no, no. It's a thought experiment. Your desert island books are the one or five or ten books that you could always learn from and never get sick of.

My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order:[…]

It would be my desert island book, this Love Life for Every Married Couple; marriage being to me the most obvious path to the hardest lesson we've all got to learn […]

A roast dinner would be my desert island meal and I'd missed Dad's divine crispy King Edwards each Sunday.

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