How to Use desiccated in a Sentence

desiccated

adjective

• 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
• The margins of survival in this desiccated land must be as thin as knives.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 11 May 2021
• But even a desiccated salt pan of a lake, Dickman said, has its appeal.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• This left entire islands of desiccated clam shells for Flessa to study.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Wired, 1 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The desiccated strips of algae, rich in absorbed carbon, are then buried a few meters below the surface.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 5 July 2022
• 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
• And a massive source of potential dust pollution looms at the desiccated Great Salt Lake.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2022
• Unsweetened desiccated coconut can be found in the baking aisle.
  — Deb Wandell, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Others have taken a stab at greening the forlorn and mostly desiccated land.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• Droughts would last year after year, leaving blankets of desiccated plants.
  — Vogue, 29 Sep. 2021
• If not, our planet could exist as anything from a singular global ocean to a desiccated world.
  — Theo Nicitopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
• 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
• Amid the cuts, desiccated lawns and shorter showers became commonplace across the region.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• There are bone fragments and bits of desiccated brain within the Delemont male mummy's cranial cavity.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
• Hundreds of desiccated fish dot stream banks, along with the carcasses of water buffalo poisoned by saline water.
  — Wil Crisp, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2023
• Includes aromas of desiccated prunes, oranges and limes.
  — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 3 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• Later, Jesseca found the desiccated remains of an enormous N. macrophylla hanging from the branches above.
  — Brian Howey, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
• Rich, dark honey combines with desiccated coconut and dried banana.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• 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

Last Updated: 4 Sep 2024