half-deserted
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The silent, half-deserted streets were flanked by houses covered with satellite dishes and water tanks.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2023
Not just anywhere in the West, but the half-deserted, sandy vastness of the far suburbs of Las Vegas, beautifully shot by the film’s ace cinematographer Roger Deakins on the outskirts of Albuquerque.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2019
Short on cash when he arrived, he ended up living in a half-deserted section of Lower Manhattan near South Street Seaport, in a 19th-century sailmaker’s loft on Coenties Slip.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2015
Hitch a lift with an army truck heading across Pinklao Bridge, which spans the swollen Chao Phraya River near the Grand Palace, and you descend into the grim, half-deserted waterworld that is now western Bangkok.
From Time • Oct. 29, 2011
Two … days … were occupied in exploring the half-deserted town of Kwa-chow, whose name signifies 'the island of gourds,' being completely insulated by the river and canal.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
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