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
Her photos are set amid the front porches, backyards and half-deserted streets of her Midwestern town.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
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
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
In the extreme southwestern corner of the State the railroads do not come; the vacant spaces grow between the country roads, and the cities dwindle down to half-deserted crossroads hamlets.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
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