DESERTED in a Sentence

Learn DESERTED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
267 example sentences for DESERTED, such as:
1. She deserted the stage for army.
2. I never knowed one who deserted.
3. The slope below them was deserted.
4. The officer deserted to the enemy.
5. The young soldier deserted the army.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DESERTED
deserted
 a.  forsaken by owner or inhabitants
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The deserted wife had not done badly either.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  The slope below them was deserted.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The gray troops passed by empty mansions, deserted farms, lonely cabins with doors ajar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Behind the ruins the row of whitewashed slave quarters stood silent and deserted under the overhanging trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  It was burned, in ruins, deserted, as were all the plantations she had passed that day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She could have left them in Atlanta, dumped Melanie into the hospital and deserted her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  The road lay still and deserted and never a cloud of red dust proclaimed the approach of visitors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  "I said some terrible things to him that night when he deserted us on the road, but I can make him forget them," she thought contemptuously, still sure of her power to charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  The soldiers on the square had taken shelter in their huts and the streets were deserted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  It was dinner time and the streets were deserted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  I never knowed one who deserted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  For once his good manners had deserted him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  No, Scarlett did not like to remember the way the deserted County looked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  The village had been hurriedly deserted, perhaps because terrorists were in the area.
2  I could see no sign of life in the deserted town.
3  Many of the party's traditional voters deserted it at the last election.
4  He had lured his victim to a deserted house.
5  I deserted for half a century did not wait for my followers.
6  The emperor was deserted by his closest supporters before the end of the war.
7  His muse had deserted him, and he could no longer write.
8  The officer deserted to the enemy.
9  Soldiers who deserted and were caught were shot.
10  The young soldier deserted the army.
11  She deserted the stage for army.
12  His nervous glances at the passersby on the deserted street revealed his apprehension.
13  In the wake of the scandal, John, the senator's one-time adherent, quickly deserted him.
14  The majority of horror movies are set in deserted areas with limited proximity to towns and major cities.
15  A few years ago, my boyfriend Sean was fined while spinning fire in a deserted open concrete area amidst the sprinkling of light rain.