deserted
Example Sentences
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After a few days of argument, these men took some supplies, deserted the Advance, and set off across the ice to try to save themselves.
From Literature
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The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
The sun was beginning to set as we drove back to the paramedic base, and a city that once came alive at night, would soon be deserted.
From BBC
She only goes out to walk Olive when the streets are deserted, has very limited contact with her family, no longer sees her friends, and has her groceries delivered.
From Barron's
The remains of a bus reduced to scrap metal lay abandoned in the street, while AFP saw dozens of stores and shopping centers along the same corridor that remained closed and deserted.
From Barron's
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