The word "deserts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as either a noun or a verb. Noun: The deserts of the American Southwest are some of the most spectacular landscapes in the world. Verb: He was deserted by his friends when he needed them the most.
The big attacks still come – but in Islamabad, Mumbai, Kabul, Baghdad, and now in the deserts of the Sahara.
The lassi yoghurt drinks are a house speciality, along with a wider than usual selection of deserts including gulab jamun, pista kulfi and rasmalai.
I admit that riding a small motorcycle solo across the Himalayan deserts of Ladakh is an unintelligent pursuit for an octogenarian who has suffered two heart attacks.
From southern Peru, through Bolivia, and into northern Argentina, my route alternated between the luxuriant jungles on the Andes' eastern slopes, and deserts on the west.
Instead of shipboard romance we found dramatic cactus deserts and oceans seething with marine life.
"When I came back to France I realised that I had seen things that other children had not seen – elephants, zebras, deserts.
The more expensive the trip, the older the average age tends to be, but I've been camping at altitude and hiking through deserts with people in their 60s and 70s, whose energy and open-mindedness would put many younger people to shame.
Hundreds of high-street firms specialising in criminal defence work will be forced to close, solicitors say, creating "advice deserts" in towns and cities where defendants will be left without adequate legal representation.
Under curfew the stadium began filling with Pinochet's prisoners: some were summarily shot, others were sent to concentration camps in the Atacama deserts of the north or the frigid sub-Antarctic south.
The Central Asian state has plenty to offer travellers, from tours designed to highlight the natural beauty of its mountains, lakes and deserts to more off-beat itineraries, including space tourism at the Baikonur cosmodrome and a visit to a Soviet-era gulag prison camp.
I loved the vast richness of his canvas from an Italian monastery to the deserts of North Africa, the weaving of the politics of war with the power play of passion, all exhilarated with the thirst for exploration and adventure.
