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 his canvas he began to move about the room.

From Amusement Only by Marsh, Richard

Deserting and abandoning her by reason of unseaworthiness or danger of remaining in her, also when grounded and cannot be saved.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir