Example sentences for: deserted

How can you use “deserted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is most crowded just before the lunch hour and in the early evening on weekdays and at dusk on weekends, though it is never deserted.

  • Silvery and immaculate, with hallucinatory depth and detail, the pictures of Western mines and Eastern skyscrapers, cotton fields and battleships, boomtown main streets and metropolitan train stations have a strangely deserted Sunday-morning feel, as if they represented the first day, or perhaps the last, of American modernity.

  • Crop yield is poor, partly because of the chronic lack of water, and fields once tended are now deserted.

  • It was devastated in 1963 but some of its gateways, pavilions, terraces, and its weed-choked pool still stand, forlorn and deserted, like the relics of some far more ancient civilization.

  • The Sydney Morning Herald also prominently reported the murder, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, of 30-year-old Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes, who was the correspondent in Jakarta for the Financial Times of London and the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland and who also wrote occasionally for the Christian Science Monitor . He was riding on the back of a motorcycle through the deserted Dili suburb of Becora when, according to his driver, who survived, six men in Indonesian army uniforms opened fire.


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