How to Use desert island in a Sentence

desert island

noun
  • You’re stranded on a desert island and your phone’s battery is at ten per cent.
    — Jiji Lee, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This would definitely be on my five records on a desert island.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This Laneige lip mask is my desert island beauty product.
    — Clara McMahon, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But if they were wrecked on a desert island together…If only.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Ahead of the Naked Palette launch, Zomnir asked her team to bring their four desert island shades into a meeting.
    — Rachel Burchfield, Forbes.com, 26 June 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
  • The film opens with 50 new, technologically advanced Buzz Lightyear toys washed up and abandoned on a desert island.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 June 2026
  • Below, Annie fills us in on what went wrong with the Kele tribe, her relationship and alliance with Alex, and what her top 3 desert island albums are.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The story is principally set early in 1965, on the stark desert island of Qeshm, in the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • When asked for her top three desert island products, Affleck, of course, mentioned Bio-Oil , with a Dyson hair tool and trio of blushes trailing right behind.
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Crawford’s desert island product is, unsurprisingly, sunscreen.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The darkly comic horror-thriller stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as coworkers stranded on a desert island.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 1 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • While mostly faithful to the book, this Lord of the Flies smartly adjusts its story of midcentury schoolboys stranded on a desert island for an episodic medium by filtering each installment through the perspective of a different preteen character.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 4 May 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
  • The darkly comic horror-thriller stars McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as coworkers stranded on a desert island, and sports a glowing 93 percent critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes.
    — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The desert island thriller, with a starry cast that includes Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney and Ana de Armas, landed mediocre reviews and is opening outside the top 10.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Adapted for television by Adolescence co-creator, Emmy winner Jack Thorne, in Lord of the Flies, innocence descends into savagery when a group of English schoolboys becomes desert island castaways.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Sophia, Lara, Yoonchae, Megan, and Daniela — the entire group, minus Manon — appear on the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s Role Roulette to map out their plans for the most crucial scenarios, like winning the lottery or being stranded on a desert island.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025

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