I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ arid , barren , dry , hot
▪
green fields surrounded by arid ~
▪ vast
▪ empty , open ( esp. AmE )
▪ inhospitable
▪ Arctic , polar
▪ high
▪ flat
▪ cultural ( figurative )
▪
The town has become a cultural ~.
VERB + DESERT
▪ become , turn into , turn to
▪
The land loses its protective cover of vegetation and soon turns into ~.
▪ cross
▪
He became the first person to cross the ~ on foot.
DESERT + VERB
▪ stretch
▪
The ~ stretched for endless miles on all sides of us.
DESERT + NOUN
▪ area , country , land , landscape , region
▪
vast tracts of ~ land
▪ conditions
▪ heat
▪ sand , soil
▪ floor , surface
▪ plain
▪ animal , plant
PREPOSITION
▪ across the ~ , through the ~
▪
their journey across the ~
▪ in the ~
▪
cold nights in the ~
▪ into the ~
▪
He drove off into the ~.
II.
verb
Desert is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ luck , ↑ soldier
Desert is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ army , ↑ nest , ↑ post , ↑ wife