Example Sentences

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Deserting the desert: After Arizona’s loss to Buffalo, two of the team’s stars wasted no time in announcing their plans for the future.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2018

Deserting the country he was fighting for and then serving as a propaganda tool show his true, cowardly nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Deserting the wreck, Ignatius lumbered down the tracks toward the streetcar, the white muumuu of a uniform swishing around his ankles.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Deserting a few years later, she enlisted in a regiment of foot and fought in Flanders, showing on all occasions great bravery, but quitted the service to enlist in a regiment of horse.

From The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers by Gosse, Philip

Deserting her pastry-board she retreated behind the woodstack and sat down on the chopping-block; and then, for some minutes, the sky was blotted out.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel