Examples of desert island in a Sentence
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The story is principally set early in 1965, on the stark desert island of Qeshm, in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
This reimagining of the classic tale of the white European male shipwrecked on a desert island is brave, funny, wild and spellbinding.
—The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Crawford’s desert island product is, unsurprisingly, sunscreen.
—Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
Directed by Sam Raimi, the darkly comic horror-thriller Send Help stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as co-workers stranded on a desert island.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 8 Feb. 2026
After getting marooned on a desert island when their private plane crashes somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand on the way to a business trip, the dynamic between the adversarial pair is quickly flipped on its head.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
The most purely enjoyable Raimi film in years, the upcoming desert island debacle from 20th Century Studios is an ideal synthesis of the director’s career thus far.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
In the film, McAdams plays Linda, a timid employee who is stranded on a desert island with her sleazy boss (Dylan O’Brien) and begins to resort to a more primal personality.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
That sentence would’ve sounded incomprehensible to anyone who’d just returned from a decade on a desert island, about as farfetched as Indiana being 15-0 right now.
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
This reimagining of the classic tale of the white European male shipwrecked on a desert island is brave, funny, wild and spellbinding.
—The Know, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026
Crawford’s desert island product is, unsurprisingly, sunscreen.
—Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
Directed by Sam Raimi, the darkly comic horror-thriller Send Help stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as co-workers stranded on a desert island.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 8 Feb. 2026
After getting marooned on a desert island when their private plane crashes somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand on the way to a business trip, the dynamic between the adversarial pair is quickly flipped on its head.
—Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
The most purely enjoyable Raimi film in years, the upcoming desert island debacle from 20th Century Studios is an ideal synthesis of the director’s career thus far.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Jan. 2026
In the film, McAdams plays Linda, a timid employee who is stranded on a desert island with her sleazy boss (Dylan O’Brien) and begins to resort to a more primal personality.
—Jenelle Riley, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026
That sentence would’ve sounded incomprehensible to anyone who’d just returned from a decade on a desert island, about as farfetched as Indiana being 15-0 right now.
—Jason Kirk, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Desert island.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desert%20island. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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