How To Use Deserter In A Sentence

He had become a deserter from the U.S. military - a crime punishable by prison, or even death.
On the way to the infirmary, Sisko asked the computer to redisplay the Cardassian deserter's personnel file on his padd. Betrayal
Military police are dealing with at least 40 percent more deserters than last year, the result of increasing numbers of reservists refusing to perform military service.
These are brilliant programmes, some telling stories from much closer to home? one includes an American army deserter? and all full of stubborn courage, braveness, luck and some jaw-dropping cruelty. Radio head: Promised Land
Between refuseniks, deserters and ‘Intifada Syndrome’, Israel's military is experiencing similar problems to other armies.

This structure should also have responsibility to search for deserters.
Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged.
He felt like a deserter to be away from his own Divisional family, his own Staff comrades, his own commander at such a time. IN LOVE AND WAR
There was the sleepy Sunday of his boyhood, when, like a military deserter, he was marched to chapel by a picquet of teachers three times a day, morally handcuffed to another boy; and when he would willingly have bartered two meals of indigestible sermon for another ounce or two of inferior mutton at his scanty dinner in the flesh. Little Dorrit
After 30 days of being AWOL a serviceman is considered a deserter, and a warrant is issued for his arrest.
Peter, at first so quiet and unassuming, turns out to be an Army deserter.
Not all were deserters; some had grown into apostles and evangelists in their own right and had left to do what God had given them to do.
He was a considerable muggins, and a great coward, in fact, a Yankee deserter. "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
‘We have arrested the culprits who include a deserter from the Army,’ says a forest official.
The chief fallacy appears to be this - that he insists that the race must always count for more than the individual, and that the individual must fall in line and step with the average conventions of the race at the expense of his own well-being, or be judged a deserter and a recreant.
So now, as Robin points out, us anti-war, would-be dissenters, deserters and betrayers are to be offered a wide-ranging smorgasbord of humanitarian pledges to get us back on the New Labour bus.
In what part of Hellas, tell me, sir, do Hellenes keep a truce with traitors, double-dyed deserters, and tyrants? Hellenica
Covered by a trail of new names, false claims, and new marital arrangements, deserters and bigamists often lurked just beyond the reach of the law.
Napoleon brought opposition to conscription under control, instituting the gendarmerie and mobile columns of soldiers to track down draft-dodgers and deserters in the countryside.
The Indian Army declared him a deserter when he did not return.
Later, one Jethro Simsby, a Mormon deserter, set up his rod and staff on the banks of the creek, home-steaded a quarter-section of the sage-brush plain, and in due time came to be known as the Dry Creek cattle king. The Grafters
The expedition continued to toil north, and continued to leak men, as deserters wilier than Collins slipped away night after night.
We hunted up the deserters in the forest last week.
But one of them, the Orakzai Pathan (for nothing could completely unman him), shouted to know whether it was true that pardons had been offered for deserters, and Courtenay nodded. In The Time Of Light
Security along the frontier would be strengthened and information likely to lead to the capture of criminals and deserters would be exchanged.
With the help of military deserters, they stormed the prison and forced its surrender, massacring the commander who had fired on them early in the attack.
The thousands of draft-dodgers and deserters who evaded each call-up showed clearly enough that the army's appeal was far from universal.
The man we know as Don Draper is a deserter from the U.S. William Bradley: Mad Men : "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?)
On March 6 pay bonuses were announced for all soldiers and an amnesty was declared for deserters and draft dodgers.
Now it appeared that the Government had changed its mind, a militiaman was a regular soldier and counted as a deserter if he tried to go home. Homage to Catalonia
In the American and British armies deserters were almost always infantrymen.
War her father weren't in the war, but he would search for what they call a deserter, hunt deserters. Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, September 2, 1976. Interview H-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
KKKarl rove is so crooked he has to screw his pants on. dumbyaâ€ ™ s smarmy school marm wife murdered her highschool boyfriend. dumbya is a deserter. dumbya was AWOL. dumbya is STUPID. dumby will be impeached. get a clue and go away. Think Progress » McClellan: Everyone in “the White House Has Been Cooperating Fully With The Special Counsel”
Considered a deserter by the Red Army, he was convicted of treason.
We hunted up the deserters in the forest last week.
Arnold eventually put together a regiment in New York, made up almost entirely of deserters, that he called the American Legion. Angel in the Whirlwind
Nyxnissa "Nyx" so Dasheem is a bel dame, one of the brutal women engaged in hunting deserters. Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books
The measure also allowed relief for redcoat deserters who returned voluntarily. George Washington’s First War
In addition, about half a million Italian deserters had melted into the landscape.
U.S. military records list him as an Army deserter.
There may be thousands of potential deserters fleeing the Army, and they're trying to hide the scandal.
Air force deserters even managed to get a few French aircraft airworthy for an attack against the Nazis.
We're here in the bottom of an ashet; there's more than one deserter from your tartan on the outside of it, and once they get on the rim they have, by all rules strategic, the upper hand of us in some degree. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
Inspired by the gentle, tragic monster, they become convinced that there is a fugitive spirit inhabiting a remote farmhouse, which materialises in the form of an army deserter.
I know that a number of prisoners fell into the enemy's hands who did not belong to my command: such as cavalrymen on details to get fresh horses, soldiers on leave of absence, conscripts on special details, citizens not in the service, men employed in getting supplies for the departments, and stragglers and deserters from other commands. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
For Henan Province, I am not a deserter.
There were deserters and rejects from the American army, one or two curious fragments of human flotsam from the Spanish Civil War, and the first American negro Raymond had known, a huge, clever man, rumoured to be a lawyer from West Virginia. Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy
The bureau confirmed their suspicions when it sent patrols into the countryside to round up deserters and men subject to conscription.
The "impecunious" deserter fared more hardly; and would, usually, be forced by hunger and thirst to emerge from his hiding place, while the steamer was on the outward voyage. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner
In the American and British armies deserters were almost always infantrymen.
Many of those who opted out were repeat deserters who weren't even shell-shocked.
The report obviously came from high ranking deserters because in addition to troop strengths it detailed the individual personalities of the top leaders.
Later, a legionnaire called him a deserter, and Rytlock killed him as well. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
A deserter claimed he was the victim of "Norwegian secessionists."
A principal role of military police has been to apprehend deserters and to prevent soldiers straggling or running from the battlefield; troops deployed in the latter role are often termed ‘battle police’.
Moreover, the orders to move were countermanded so the corps could chase deserters and round up transport, then reissued, then countermanded again.2 George Washington’s First War
Two AK-47 rifles, which were taken away by a deserter jawan of 159 Territorial (H&H) battalion Zaffarullah Parrey on March 8, 2009, were recovered from the site of encounter. Top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander among two militants and lady associate killed in Doda in J&K
Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply dismiss them in their absence.
Or they were acting on their own authority, in which case they are the equivalent of mutineers, deserters, or traitors in the field.
The butcher, who was an ex-'spahi ', declared that he was a deserter. Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
The Appalachian Mountains, Florida swamps, and Texas chaparral became the domain of armed bands of Southern deserters.
We hunted up the deserters in the forest last week.
And she remembered during the Civil War her father weren't in the war, but he would search for what they call a deserter, hunt deserters. Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, 1976 September 2. Interview H-66. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Flossie Moore Durham
But the tribunals' caseload amounted largely to dealing with deserters, known Confederate agents, and foreign nationals in Confederate service.
With the help of military deserters, they stormed the prison and forced its surrender, massacring the commander who had fired on them early in the attack.
Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply to write off the missing soldiers and dismiss them in their absence.
As in the Canadian campaign, returning soldiers and deserters carried smallpox home with them, sparking outbreaks that lasted well into 1777 in tidewater Virginia and Maryland.
Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
The marshland areas were areas that dissidents could go and hide in, deserters from the army could go and hide in.
No doubt I shall lose a son by your death but if you give up your faith I shall be called the mother of a deserter and faithless son.
But I heard say that the sirkar has offered pardons to all deserters who return. In The Time Of Light
While the troops were barracked in the Griffin House, two Confederate deserters dressed in stolen Union uniforms had been caught looting homes.
A Pommy Navy deserter joined the AIF for a free ride home, but ended up in Turkey in 1915.
We hunted up the deserters in the forest last week.
Russia formed by the Volga basin in 1775 was described as "an asylum for malcontents and vagabonds of all kinds, ruined nobles, disfrocked monks, military deserters, fugitive serfs, highwaymen, and Volga pirates" -- disorderly elements which contributed greatly to the insurrection led by the Ural Cossacks in that year. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
I think he must have been a deserter from a group of dancers, for he was evidently feeling the heat more than his neighbours and had made an improvised parasol out of two sticks of sugar cane and a banana leaf. Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
We hunted up the deserters in the forest last week.
Whether the charr was a deserter or a picket or a patrol, he spotted them now. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
I know the signs are not good as the Gramsci moles seem to have reached Eton, too, judging by some of phraseology emitting from the Cameroons, but I have to go on hoping that they are appealing to the deserters of NuLab in a vote-catching exercise and subterfuge; that they will restore some traditional conservatism and patriotism if they get into power. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
What will today's conscientious objectors and military deserters look like?
Soldiers are considered deserters when they remain AWOL for more than 30 days.
He turned and twisted, schemed and devised, bludgeoned and bullied the weaker ones, kept the faint-hearted in the fight, and had no mercy on the deserter. Chapter XXI
The still extensive forests, swamps, and reed-edged lakes provided cover for gangs of bandits, robbers, and deserters.
Deserters from foreign armies, prisoners of war, criminals, vagabonds, tramps, and people whom the crimps had entrapped by fraud and violence were the bulk of the regiments.
Or they were acting on their own authority, in which case they are the equivalent of mutineers, deserters, or traitors in the field.
Some bands, in strong positions, fought gallantly, but in the end every deserter from the militia met death. Chapter 16: The End
There Jackson became a cowardly deserter sponging off the martial generosity of Uncle Sam, a man who betrayed his comrades and never paid his gambling debts.
Jean may be an army deserter, but he still maintains an air of heroism.
Sufi cultists, Egyptian deserters, riverain farmers, and desert nomads all received the patched white jibba. Three Empires on the Nile
I entered the bottom of the central building, where we stored the spare bandoleers that the deserters dropped.
They want to flush out the Resistance workers and the guerrillas - as well as the deserters from their own army.

How To Use Deserter In A Sentence

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