How to Use desiccated in a Sentence
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Steep mountainside was covered in desiccated brush, and by the middle of the day, the rocks were hot to the touch.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
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The margins of survival in this desiccated land must be as thin as knives.
—Kate Siber, Outside Online, 11 May 2021
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But even a desiccated salt pan of a lake, Dickman said, has its appeal.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
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This left entire islands of desiccated clam shells for Flessa to study.
—Jack Tamisiea, Wired, 1 Jan. 2022
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Her rendition is stuffed with a not-too-sweet mix of ground black sesame seeds, coconut cream and desiccated coconut.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
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The recipe is straightforward: stuff a desiccated toad into a potato-sized rock and add a story.
—Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
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The snow line is creeping higher in the region, and the desiccated grasses, brush and tree limbs have become ready fuel for large wildfires.
—New York Times, 2 July 2022
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The feral, desiccated monsters attack them in the woods, and then their maker throws herself onto a fire, right in front of Louis and Claudia.
—Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 13 May 2024
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Look at the same land from an airplane and distance reveals the ghost of water, the branching etchings and furrows of desiccated riverbeds and arroyos.
—Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
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The desiccated strips of algae, rich in absorbed carbon, are then buried a few meters below the surface.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 5 July 2022
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Scrambled eggs will stay creamy and lush—there’s no danger of ending up with those desiccated egg nuggets that can sometimes happen with a cast-iron pan.
—Emma Wartzman, Bon Appétit, 7 June 2021
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And a massive source of potential dust pollution looms at the desiccated Great Salt Lake.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2022
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Unsweetened desiccated coconut can be found in the baking aisle.
—Deb Wandell, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
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Where once a wetland of reeds, birds, fish and amphibians thrived, there are now dairy farms, human waste sites and farm fields operating on the bottom of the desiccated lake.
—Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
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Sent on a space walk to assess damage, Jo dislodges what appears to be the desiccated body of a woman in the suit of Russian cosmonaut, circa late 1960s, which shoots from her grasp.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
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Others have taken a stab at greening the forlorn and mostly desiccated land.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
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Droughts would last year after year, leaving blankets of desiccated plants.
—Vogue, 29 Sep. 2021
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If not, our planet could exist as anything from a singular global ocean to a desiccated world.
—Theo Nicitopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
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There are stories about kids playing football with skulls and dogs digging up desiccated human bits.
—Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
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Amid the cuts, desiccated lawns and shorter showers became commonplace across the region.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
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My father grows up drinking rice porridge, and, being the younger son of six children, occasionally has a desiccated olive to suck on while my aunts watch with envy.
—Yuxi Lin, Longreads, 16 June 2022
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And within just a few feet of the entrance, on a sunny afternoon this March, Richard Stark finds the small, desiccated body of a tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus), still clinging to the cave’s limestone wall.
—Geoffrey Giller, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2018
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There are bone fragments and bits of desiccated brain within the Delemont male mummy's cranial cavity.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
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Hundreds of desiccated fish dot stream banks, along with the carcasses of water buffalo poisoned by saline water.
—Wil Crisp, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2023
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Includes aromas of desiccated prunes, oranges and limes.
—Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 July 2022
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The skull bears evidence of multiple fractures consistent with blows to the head, including the presence of bone fragments in the cranial cavity (as well as a bit of desiccated brain tissue).
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
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Chasing success has costs that can end up lowering happiness, as many a desiccated, lonely workaholic can tell you.
—Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
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Later, Jesseca found the desiccated remains of an enormous N. macrophylla hanging from the branches above.
—Brian Howey, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
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Rich, dark honey combines with desiccated coconut and dried banana.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
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Oporto has also made some gluten-free Lamington cakes, a traditional Australian baked good that consists of squares of cake that are coated in chocolate and rolled in desiccated coconut.
—Jenny Haward, Peoplemag, 25 Feb. 2024
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