How to Use "desiccate" with Example Sentences

1. In a week , your skin will desiccate and you will mummify .
2. Placing it in a bag with moisture-absorbing desiccate packets from vitamin bottles worked , but only for a few moments .
3. " There was only the sun-bruised and desiccate feeling in his mind " ( j.r. salamanca )
4. One approach might be to encourage uses of marshland that do not desiccate the peat-for example , growing moisture-loving rubber trees rather than oil palms , which need dry soils .