deserted
Example Sentences
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Not to anything major, of course, but you were put on a Glitch platform and sent to a deserted field somewhere in the past to get used to the whole experience.
From Literature
As dawn broke, large areas of the usually busy capital were deserted and shops remained shuttered.
From Barron's
When I finally rolled up, I realized what I thought was the end point was a deserted Mongolian shepherd village.
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
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
