How to Use desiccated in a Sentence

desiccated

adjective
  • The fox’s desiccated body caught the page’s eye.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Many of us are walking around with a desiccated heart right now.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Throw in some desiccated coconut or a few gratings of lemon or orange zest.
    — Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • But even a desiccated salt pan of a lake, Dickman said, has its appeal.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Her brain, however, was still in the skull, desiccated and shifted to the right.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This left entire islands of desiccated clam shells for Flessa to study.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Wired, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Some tracts are clear-cut, leaving vast swaths of bare ground, desiccated streams and marshes, and countless tree stumps.
    — Alexis Marie Adams, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Droughts would last year after year, leaving blankets of desiccated plants.
    — Vogue, 29 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Unsweetened desiccated coconut can be found in the baking aisle.
    — Deb Wandell, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The glue is decomposing; the desiccated clippings, when touched, turn to dust.
    — The Learning Network, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Others have taken a stab at greening the forlorn and mostly desiccated land.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • If not, our planet could exist as anything from a singular global ocean to a desiccated world.
    — Theo Nicitopoulos, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2022
  • Driven by hurricane force winds, the fires quickly roared through a desiccated landscape.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The goat becomes desiccated Viserys, feebly holding a crown in his hand.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • Rich, dark honey combines with desiccated coconut and dried banana.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The scorching Diablo Range, where cattle roam oceans of desiccated grass, lies to the east.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Amid the cuts, desiccated lawns and shorter showers became commonplace across the region.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hundreds of desiccated fish dot stream banks, along with the carcasses of water buffalo poisoned by saline water.
    — Wil Crisp, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2023
  • This left the lake so dry it was considered a total loss, known only for the dust pollution generated off its desiccated shores.
    — Daniel Rothberg, Vox, 1 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • At the same time, Henry sees Irena’s face morph from her lovely complexion into a desiccated corpse.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2024
  • There are bone fragments and bits of desiccated brain within the Delemont male mummy's cranial cavity.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Instead, the evidence suggested that the bodies were dried and preserved, buried in a desiccated state, rather than as fresh cadavers.
    — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And a massive source of potential dust pollution looms at the desiccated Great Salt Lake.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 May 2022
  • Naysayers ignored that talent in deference to the desiccated inanity of Marvel’s war-toy movies.
    — Armond White, National Review, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Every man has or needs one of these, especially those who’s toiletry bag is currently smeared with old toothpaste and desiccated contact lenses.
    — Nick Morton, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'desiccated.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: