10 sentences with 'deserted'

Example sentences and phrases with the word deserted and other words derived from it.

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• « The ambulance siren sounded shrill in the deserted street. »

• « The shipwreck at sea left the crew fighting for their lives on a deserted island. »

• « The street was deserted. Nothing could be heard except the sound of his footsteps. »

• « Imagine you are on a deserted island. You can send a message to the world using a carrier pigeon. What would you write? »

• « Amid cold, hunger and disease, soldiers deserted en masse. »

• « When I walked her to her car, the street was deserted and the traffic lights were flashing yellow. »

• « As Washington feared, nearly a hundred soldiers deserted each week. Desertions continued, and by 1780, Washington executed recaptured deserters every Saturday. »

• « Many fled the cities for the countryside, peasants took land from the landlords and soldiers deserted en masse; by 1917, 75% of the soldiers sent to the front against Germany had deserted. »

• « According to folklore, all over the United States, houses and farms were deserted overnight, and curious neighbours found notes that read only "GTT" ("Gone to Texas"). Many Europeans, especially Germans, also migrated to Texas during this period. »

• « A furious defence by Russian forces slowed the German advance in the winter of 1916-1917, but the war was deeply unpopular on the home front and more and more soldiers deserted rather than face the Germans. It was against this backdrop of imminent defeat that a popular revolution overthrew the tsarist state. »

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