How to Use desiccate in a Sentence

desiccate

verb

• The grass will grow like crazy when the rains come, then quickly desiccate when the landscape dries.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• This will protect the flower buds from the strong winds which can desiccate them.
  — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2023
• The idea that they were buried under the sand and desiccated and lacking any sort of moisture.
  — Joanna Robinson, VanityFair.com, 3 Apr. 2017
• Edward is in the grip of a grotesque malady that causes his flesh to desiccate and slough away.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• The veld looked like the giant desiccated hide of some ancient creature, skinned and scarred and skeletal.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
• Many of us live on patches of ground that look as desiccated as that roof Novak started with.
  — Dominique Browning, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• Rainy winters and springs encourage the growth of plants, which desiccate in the dry summer and turn into fuel.
  — Wired, 21 July 2022
• The mountains here are steep, desiccated, and flat-out savage.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 16 Apr. 2018
• Pipe a line of frosting around the hat and sprinkle with nonpareils or desiccated coconut.
  — Woman's Day Kitchen, Woman's Day, 30 Nov. 2018
• Wood releases most of its moisture through its end grain, and both types of stacks expose the wood to capitalize on the heat of the sun and desiccating breezes.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2018
• Slicing through valleys, the winds gather more speed, desiccating the air.
  — Wired, 8 Oct. 2019
• The mocking laughter of the servant Lesbus, and the grim image of the dead and desiccated Roman wolf that descends behind him, seem more like their curse.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 1 Mar. 2020
• A few weeks later, a reporter found Rippee at a Vallejo strip mall, asleep on a patch of concrete littered with dirty socks and desiccated orange peels.
  — Jocelyn Wiener, SFChronicle.com, 4 Jan. 2020
• Plants were torn from their homes and those that remained had most of their foliage almost instantly desiccated.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 2 Feb. 2018
• Scientific efforts to rule the rain began in the United States sometime during the late 1800s, when a series of droughts desiccated great swaths of the nation.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• The American landscape is littered with the husks of news outlets desiccated by the migration of life-giving attention from a page that folds to a page that glows.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 10 Oct. 2019
• The giraffe—looking desiccated but not disfigured—was put on display in a clear, airless box.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• In that sense, the beige tone of Mr. Mueller’s report — that desiccating bureaucratese denying the events their juice and soundbite-ability — is something of a radical act in this day and age.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 25 June 2019
• There are bigger problems in the world and in the desiccated, creaking husk that is the Democrats’ political infrastructure.
  — Jesse Singal, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Oct. 2017
• In Uzbekistan, the entire eastern basin of the South Aral Sea is completely desiccated, leaving merely a single strip of water in the west.
  — Taylor Weidman, National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2018
• Last week my doctor switched me to Armour desiccated thyroid.
  — Teresa Graedon, The Seattle Times, 25 Feb. 2018
• An agricultural fair in Zambia’s Mumbwa district is a three-hour drive from Lusaka, much of it through maize fields desiccated by drought.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Those hot days are blamed in part for desiccating the region’s foliage, essentially preparing the area for this month’s wildfires.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• Earth’s atmosphere has a habit of desiccating things, after all, so plants evolved something called cutin, a waxy barrier against the elements.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 21 June 2018
• Some tribes in Iron Age Britain placed their dead in special places to be desiccated by the elements rather than cremated or interred; if the Iceni followed this practice, then nothing would remain of the queen.
  — Richard Hingley, National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2019
• Instead, the Dudok projected a lean smooth sound, neither desiccated nor sharp-edged.
  — Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• The landscape is barren and desiccated, resembling the moon or some distant celestial body, a reminder that the astronauts are a long way from Cape Canaveral.
  — Christian Davenport, Houston Chronicle, 15 June 2018
• Scales form over buds to protect them from desiccating or drying out, and from freezing temperatures.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 14 Jan. 2017
• Tinder-dry vegetation has blown into power lines, sparking fires fanned by high winds across a landscape desiccated from drought and climate change.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• Despite its strange shape, trajectory and lack of a tail, ‘Oumuamua is just a comet after all, its ice locked away beneath a tarlike crust hardened and desiccated by eons of bombardment by cosmic rays.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 9 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024