How To Use Deserted In A Sentence

This time it was a decrepit, dark and deserted Tudor style house.
Two men wake to find themselves chained at opposite ends of a deserted washroom somewhere in the Industrial Zone.
The lararium was deserted; the gynoecium was still, as in the Roman time, the favoured apartment of the female portion of the household, and indeed bore the same name [8], and with the group there assembled we have now to do. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
Rome and her iniquities; the streets, deserted by the people, were trodden by French patrols; all was silent as the grave itself; and not a friend was there to bid them adieu; not a relative to speak a consoling word to the departing; and none to acquaint the unfortunates who remained behind with their terrible calamity! Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
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The street lay silent and deserted.
He had already been deserted by his female relatives, Georgina having been invited by young Lewis Armitage to join a group about the pianoforte, and Lavinia having stridden off without a word of explanation to join Sophie. Irresistible
Was this the beginning of a turnaround for a career that has stalled on the back of personal turmoil and a technique that has deserted him? Times, Sunday Times
That means you're ready for the Tobago Cays, four deserted islets where the snorkeling and diving are unsurpassed, and there's plenty of room for sailboarding.
The Zetas were founded by Mexican special forces soldiers who deserted and went to work for the Gulf Cartel as enforcers.
I stare at the snow drifting outside my window, at the nearly deserted street below, trying not to think about anything.
With more than 3,600 Filipinos riding out the typhoon in sturdy school buildings, town halls, churches and relatives 'homes, roads in and out of coastal Isabela province were deserted and blocked by collapsed trees and power lines. Super Typhoon Strikes The Philippines
The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria
When it was sunny we picnicked among the forest's ponies and searched for fossils on deserted beaches.
At the top of the tree, a huge osprey nest that should have been full of life lay empty and deserted.
When all her other friends deserted her, Steve remained loyal.
The first day took me through beautiful vineyards, apple orchards, wild flower meadows and deserted villages along a wide valley. The Sun
The first day took me through beautiful vineyards, apple orchards, wild flower meadows and deserted villages along a wide valley. The Sun
They follow him to a deserted spot where he leaves an envelope stuffed full of cash.
Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, light-handed, heavy-hearted. The White Silence
Will and Ben deserted Jim at the gate to the dusty yard to pay tig with the chickens they had to put in the coop.
The streets are deserted, their emptiness emphasized by the lonely sound of the wind.
Gavin seems happier than I've ever seen him in Bachelor world, where he lives the life of supermodel Sultan, wooing compliant, star-stuck ladies in deserted theme parks, providing them with burlesque ie stripping classes, going on excursions to clifftop picnics where shrieking fillies are made to hurtle across the cliffs by Tarzan slide, clinging round his powerful torso. The Bachelor: Grace Dent's TV OD
The beach was virtually deserted on Monday afternoon because of the overcast weather. Times, Sunday Times
After a few miserable days at Flensburg, trying to make himself agreeable to Doenitz and to assert his importance; suffering humiliations that were a constant source of embarrassment to his staff; and deserted by many of his closest companions who had already set off on their private journeys to ranch cattle in the Argentine or collect butterflies in Switzerland, Barbarossa
His ability to feel had deserted him and it left him empty.
Favourite spots for sneaked assignations are empty classrooms, deserted corridors and overgrown lots.
Those were dark times as friends deserted him and fans shunned him.
The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era.
He took a series of pictures, the first one showing the Manchester man, dressed in shorts, striped T-shirt and flip-flops, casually walking away from the beach, where water is already lapping round the deserted sunloungers.
The worst-hit were the mentally unsound women who were deserted by their kin and left on the roads to the mercy of anti-social elements.
We took a red-eye, and the airport and airplane were pretty much deserted.
On this night the sky was overcast, the ground soggy from a day's rain and the place mostly deserted.
A factory stands gutted and deserted.
Directing the driver to stop, she got out and looked down the deserted beach to a large array of rocks jutting out into the ocean.
Well the poor mutt ran away howling in pain and agony and he scampered shiveringly to a refuge in a deserted shack.
The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals. Weird and wonderful: Scotland's Away Game music festival
The work failed, marriage prospects paled, her friend deserted her and she found herself faced with the prospect which she now understood only too well, of disabled health, unemployment, disgrace, and a second child to maintain unaided. Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences
A scalawag was a Southerner who deserted his political affiliations for the spoils of the Republican party. A slaveholder's daughter,
It must be added, that, though the effluvium which is left by the footsteps of man is in general sufficient to induce lions to avoid a village, there are exceptions; so many came about our half-deserted houses at Chonuane while we were in the act of removing to Kolobeng, that the natives who remained with Mrs. Livingstone were terrified to stir out of doors in the evenings. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Certainly in Paris one sees very conspicuously the absence of the love of flowers; or, rather, one may say that for the subtle and inventive children of the Ile de France the flower is artificial, and what we call flowers are merely an insipid and subordinate variety, "natural flowers," having their market in a remote and deserted corner of the city, whereas in Barcelona the busiest and central part of the city is the Rambla de las Flores. Impressions and Comments
One of the Nine Great Streams, Wang Chung Stream begins in the ridge east of Wong Leng and Lai Pek Shan, then winds through a deserted village at the foot of Wang Shan into Chung Mei.
By day, a colony of petrels or shearwaters is a quiet, apparently deserted place.
Doctors and activists fear that they will be deserted as the regime troops make further inroads, and say they are awaiting retribution. Times, Sunday Times
And they are very disaffected with a Labour Party they believe has deserted them.
But scattered through its half-deserted rooms, state bed - chambers and the like, hung the works of more genuine masters, still as unadulterate as the hock, known to be two generations old, in the grand-ducal cellar. Imaginary Portraits
There is no greater threat in life than that we will be deserted, left all alone.
The police described finding Mr Islam, Mr Afzal and Mr Kazi handling unsealed postal ballots in a deserted warehouse in the city.
Naturally, they must drive along a virtually deserted country road.
The street was deserted except for four men sitting playing dominoes underneath a lamp post. Times, Sunday Times
That evening, after having forded two rivers full of trout and pike, called Alfa and Heta, we were obliged to spend the night in a deserted building worthy to be haunted by all the elfins of Journey to the Interior of the Earth
The acid bite of belly desire had long since deserted him, and he, too, ate from a sense of duty, all meat tasting alike to him. CHAPTER XVI
Christiane, I am not a globetrotter, but I share your love for “natural objects” like drifwood from a nearby deserted beach, branches, bark, foliage, dried teasels, berries ... (the list is longer) Grimpette - French Word-A-Day
The enormous crowds delighted show organisers who had feared they may have deserted the event after last year's cancellation.
A thousand Catholic families had been enticed from Switzerland to form a colony in the beautiful but deserted region called the Sierra Morena, well known all over The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
The adjoining house has had its windows boarded up and stands deserted, its future uncertain. The Sun
A small bird with a broken wing, left behind by its mates, struggles to escape a crowd of hungry crabs alongside a deserted seashore.
The scrannel pipes of those who have worn themselves out by their moral fastings, till they have become flat and pale like starved vermin infesting a long-deserted bed, will never reach my ear. The Home and the World
November 2nd, 2009 Virgin tycoon SIR RICHARD BRANSON has deserted his efforts to sinecure a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River craft pile-up for his intergalactic spaceship mission. Hero pilot Sullenberger jokes about marital boost in NBC 'People ...
The port district, although deserted by sailors and dockhands by nightfall, still played host to a vast syndicate of criminals.
The owl seems to have deserted its nest.
The 7th, after a novel experience of being carried up to the coast on motor 'buses from Winizeele, were "debussed" at Coxyde, where they billeted themselves comfortably in the deserted houses. The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919
On that date, Colonel James Montgomery took several companies of the regiment on a raid to the undefended and nearly deserted town of Darien.
From both land and water, the place looked like a deserted, rundown boat repair yard. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The Statue of Liberty is deserted, the grizzlies of Yellowstone have been left in peace and economists have had to go cold turkey. Times, Sunday Times
The next house was deserted, the door of the third place was slammed in his face before he could even make known his wants, and he was beginning to wonder if he must go breakfastless when a shrill, childish treble rang out clearly on the still morning air: At the Little Brown House
We all believed it unimaginable that he had lived alone on a deserted island for so long.
Already listed as having the worst weather in Canada, the motley collection of buildings stands alone and deserted. Times, Sunday Times
Here you will find deserted coves overlooking the South China Sea and the best egg tarts this side of the Algarve.
Your lucky number has deserted you and eaten your dignity.
I walked over a barbed-wire covered hill, through a deserted trench, and saw the hellish landscape.
The city centre was deserted after dark, but by early morning, residents were scurrying to buy fresh food and return to their shuttered houses. Times, Sunday Times
We kept to little-used footpaths and half-deserted streets, always stopping to look around corners before venturing forward. The Book of Unholy Mischief
From both deserted village sites and surviving nucleated settlements, a very complex picture of change and development is beginning to emerge.
One night he woke up to find the marital bed deserted. Times, Sunday Times
The building was deserted, but the sight I beheld brought me to an abrupt halt. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
This marauder was a Tartar, who had been a soldier and deserted. Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Today his crumply white face has filled out again, his belly is back with a vengeance and his clothes sense has deserted him.
We walked up the deserted street with me breathing deeply and Jamie holding me by one elbow.
And, in fact, the few who since the revival of letters have deserted Christianity for what they called philosophic heathenism, have in almost every case sympathised, not with the excellences, but with the worst vices of the Greek and Literary and General Lectures and Essays
Early on a June morning last year, four police officers drew up outside a warehouse on a deserted trading estate in Birmingham.
At this crisis, Wallace with a band of resolute men, sprang from the tower upon the wall; and it being almost deserted by its late guards, (who had quitted their post to assist in repelling the foe below), he leaped into the midst of the conflict, and the battle became general. The Scottish Chiefs
The young take to the water early in the autumn and the rookery is deserted about that time, the last to leave being the old birds who stay behind to moult. With Shackleton to the Antarctic
Many of the unemployed youth who were recruited into the army as cannon fodder in its vicious war against the country's Tamil minority have deserted.
The defection was rapid and universal; his loyal slaves were sacrificed to the public fury; the troops deserted to the standard of Bahram; and the provinces again saluted the deliverer of his country. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
When within about a thousand yards of the two gunboats, the deserted steamers blew up with such force, that, even at that great distance, the glass was shattered in the "Conestoga," and her woodwork seriously damaged. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
The area was deserted on the days we visited. Times, Sunday Times
They felt a strange presence in the deserted house.
After the hectic activity during daytime, the area is virtually deserted by dusk with the chirping of crickets casting an eerie spell on the setting.
Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.
He deserted his wife and children and went abroad.
Besides, her melodic gift has not deserted her. Times, Sunday Times
The young soldier deserted the army.
Kingston's normally bustling town centre was virtually deserted on Saturday morning as people chose to stay at home to watch the match.
These include habitats where vermin, reptiles or insects gather and, according to Al Biruni, deserted places, prisons and places of grief and mourning.
She walked all day, plodding down deserted alleyways and running across busy intersections.
From both land and water, the place looked like a deserted, rundown boat repair yard. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The number three thousand, under three officers makes this sound like the body of hypaspists deserted under their chiliarchs and the archihypaspist, Holkias.
The deserted nest, neat as a pin, had a forlorn accusing air.
It's the holidays, and things are buzzing with human activity, in a usually deserted sort of way.
The four youngsters were in a deserted town centre hunting virtual characters with their smartphones. The Sun
He deserted from army intelligence last month.
Unfortunately it was raining, windy and cold and when we got there the place was deserted.
It was deserted and I didn't see a soul, but I did stumble across a bunch of Red Deer in a meadow.
Apparently the whole region is still deserted, which makes it a totally bodacious place to cruise.
In recent years, his health began to decline but his serene and tranquil nature never deserted him.
We spotted scores of deserted coves and bays along the way on the journey home. The Sun
The children go to the utterly deserted wooden boardwalk in front of the Chateau Frontenac.
The scenes of deserted, depopulated London are worth the price of admission themselves.
It was a deserted hallway, so I squeaked in alarm when she spun around a corner to face me, her face contorted in fury.
The streets were dark and all but deserted; we only saw two figures off in the distance in the dim streets.
More than a dozen neighbourhoods that previously housed hundreds of thousands of people are deserted. Times, Sunday Times
Click here for a gallery of pictures of the deserted village at Slievemore.
We came upon two sandbagged positions, both deserted.
But the aircraft is hijacked by the pilots and flown to a deserted volcanic island. The Sun
For certain noted fugitives from the army of King Monmouth (which he himself had deserted, in a low and currish manner), having failed to obtain free shipment from the coast near Watersmouth, had returned into the wilds of Exmoor, trusting to lurk, and be comforted among the common people. Lorna Doone
Earlier this month, however, her legendary volubility deserted her.
But a recent meditation in a deserted Moroccan line-up led me to ponder the perplexities of relative perfection.
Philip Franks's production is set on a deserted seaside pier haunted by the ghosts of circus clowns.
He deserted the village for the city.
At 6.20 am, crowded together in small boats and weighed down with heavy kit, the soldiers approached the deserted shore in silence.
The Pall Mall pavement was deserted ; the very red - jackets had gone out of town.
Times Square, normally a centre of frenetic activity, was deserted.
She deserted the stage for army.
We drove over a quiet lagoon, past a deserted market, through silent streets to my house. BLOOD IS DIRT
Speeding through the city's deserted streets, I realised that I desperately needed to have a pee and pulled in, as I thought, to the side of the road.
No matter where one lives, a deserted beach or mountaintop or forest is never far away.
Empty planes, deserted airports and bankrupt airlines are a useful barometer of their fear.
Millions of voters and members have deserted these parties and are seeking an alternative.
His courage/presence of mind deserted him.
I found her lying on a silken divan in the deserted house, her hands clasped over a little white flower like an odontoglossum, which lay on her breast. Fire-Tongue
Inside the ruined and deserted school building, the classroom walls are still adorned with a series of moral slogans.
The beach is deserted except for a young blonde woman, bronzed and perfectly toned, jogging on the wet white sand with a designer dog in tow.
Heather walked into the campground, seeing it was deserted.
His courage/presence of mind deserted him.
Times Square, normally a centre of frenetic activity, was deserted.
A trip to a deserted carnival turns up a team of spooks intent on scaring everyone away.
August has passed and places that just a fortnight previously were overpriced and overcrowded are now blissfully deserted. Times, Sunday Times
The tiny window overlooked a deserted car park. Times, Sunday Times
Apart from the choice of judges, the PR machine going way beyond its remit by overselling a priapic coke-user whom they then had to sack, being deserted by Simon Cowell and then, after various related kerfuffles, turned down by Cheryl Cole, and beaten demeaningly and unaccountably in the ratings by Strictly Come Dancing, and not actually having quite enough people who could … sing … the song choices were the worse. Amelia Lily, X Factor's comeback queen, reaches end of road in talent show final
The side chapels were deserted, save for an elderly aristo woman who knelt on an embroidered hassock, chanting her rosary as she strung the beads along the string.
Indeed all around them was evidence of the new South African diamond rush and more than one of the bluejackets, including the expedition's photographer, deserted, tempted by the lure of an easy fortune.
The silent eternity of a shadowless corner house, the view of a deserted street - you can't get enough of the virtuosity of these momentary recordings, the play with colour, light and contrast.
This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months.
We were larking around with a bout of on-street wrestling when I noticed a pile of rotten vegetables on a deserted stall.
The stationer's is pretty deserted but the supermarket's stuffed with holiday shoppers, panic buying as though there's going to be some festive apocalypse; perhaps they know something I don't. Crown-of-thorns
The robbers were holed up in a deserted warehouse.
Having an interest in all things vulpine, I was immediately hooked, and deserted Mr Waley's book of translations in favour of this new find.
The new recruits adapted well to military life and, although a few deserted or turned on their officers, proved loyal to the United States.
The man in this story finds an attractive woman on a deserted road.
It was a strange and eerie feeling riding through the near deserted streets of this once great city that I had read and seen so many films about.
But streets often were half-deserted on weeknights, and some shops and restaurants were closed. A Road Ramble Along Ireland's Coast
By 1980, her ability to overpower the political pressures on the judges had deserted her.
The prisoner in the deserted campong protested and struggled, its ugly grunts disturbing the jungle peace. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
I walked down the on ramp from the deserted avenue and continued walking down the highway.
I paused in Westcliff to sit in a deserted shelter.
None of her friends had deserted her.
A white trailer rolls onto the deserted main square of a quiet Midwestern town.
Wells, a white captive raised by the Miami, was a turncoat who deserted his adopted family to join General Wayne.
Of mixed race, she was the youngest of three children by a man who deserted her mother immediately after her birth.
The stationer's is pretty deserted but the supermarket's stuffed with holiday shoppers, panic buying as though there's going to be some festive apocalypse; perhaps they know something I don't. Crown-of-thorns
Some show York street scenes so deserted that they have an eerie quality.
Yet the same amount of indignant anger seems to have deserted them when it comes to their own colleagues.
The station looked deserted, but it wouldn't be for long once the news reached Alpha Station, and where in the galaxies were the sheriff and his posse?
Their passion had deserted them, and, by the kind of dances as well as by their execution, they recalled rather the calm and self-possessed nauch girls of India than the impassioned dancers of Egypt. Michael Strogoff
Sea on the west, more sailors deserted from the whale-ships to the north, and they all starved together in right brotherly fashion. The Gold Hunters of the North
The ruined city of Vakith stood deserted, but the distant memory of children playing or merchants peddling their wares echoed in Drakas' ears.
Tired of the rat race of modern life, they found a deserted valley in a remote region of the world.
He doctored the roll-call records to make it seem as if he hadn't deserted.
The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight, and as if frostbound in the sharp air of that December night. A Personal Record
The country folk, who were prowling about the shore after the waifs of the storm, deserted "jetsom and lagend," and crowded to meet the richer prize which was coming in Hereward, the Last of the English
We only drove as far as a deserted street by the railroad tracks in our hometown so we could make out.
What is worse about Henry's story is that he raised his three sons virtually single-handed after his wife deserted them.
Everyplace from the village proper to the fancy beach houses north of the village was spookily deserted and desolate. Magical Road Less Traveled
Streets which once throbbed with dock and factory workers and their families were now deserted.
On the windward side of the island there are numerous narrow, powdery beaches and deserted rocky coves.
Resorts can only be built on deserted islands, and must be of a high standard, all with their own generators, desalination plants and produce deliveries.
However, in recent weeks his judgment has deserted him too.
I deserted for half a century did not wait for my followers.
We visited one site on horseback, trotting along deserted coastlines before cutting inland and following a rough trail winding between the salt mines. The Sun
As England realised that they would have to work hard for their gains for the first time this series, their good humour deserted them. Times, Sunday Times
The place was practically deserted, so we had the run of almost every engine to ourselves.
This time though, lady luck and self belief have both deserted him.
If so, then the place it deserted gives us the idea of pure space without solidity; whereinto any other body may enter, without either resistance or protrusion of anything. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Moth shares with Dean an interest in analogue – Travelogue, her ever-growing collection of photographs of spaces such as hotel lobbies, seaside resorts and deserted offices is shot entirely on film – and an affection for continental Europe: Dean left Britain for Berlin in 2000, Slade graduate Moth has lived in Paris, "on and off" for the past four years. Meet the best new artists in Britain
We turned the corner and walked down a deserted street. The Other Side of Me
Britain's biggest arterial roads are deserted at night and the drivers say there is little chance of being caught by a dwindling number of traffic police. Times, Sunday Times
Now it's largely deserted except for sheep clinging to rocky outcrops. Times, Sunday Times
I think of sitting next to him on a deserted stretch of beach in California.
He had heavy rock music blaring as he sped down the road, knowing it was always deserted.
He deserted from army intelligence last month.
The place was deserted, save for myriad squirrels, but I found that some young tykes had tangled up the swings, so I did my bit for community service and untangled them.
Police have issued warrants against owners of the deserted cars. Times, Sunday Times
Light, cold rain sprinkled throughout the deserted streets; everyone was elsewhere celebrating the new year.
Just picture those National Geographic locations where endless deserted sugar sand beaches, severed by rocky outcrops, fall into the nutrient rich bounteous waters of the Cortez sea of dreams and the mighty Pacific Ocean.
One night he woke up to find the marital bed deserted. Times, Sunday Times
We have a protective nurturing mother who has been deserted by her no-good husband.
The area was deserted on the days we visited. Times, Sunday Times
I don't know which book I read that in, but I know where it will be: gathering dust on the shelves of my Country Home, along with a thousand other pre-loved tracts that I deserted when I moved to London a decade or so ago.
Likewise, those that see a deserted beach are usually happy to spend long periods in their own company. Times, Sunday Times

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