DESERTED in a Sentence

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If you get lost in the desert,calculate your direction by the sun and keep moving,then you're sure to get somewhere.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESERTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
deserted
 a.  remote from civilization; left desolate or empty; abandoned
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Young Ethan Frome walked at a quick pace along the deserted street, past the bank and Michael Eady's new brick store and Lawyer Varnum's house with the two black Norway spruces at the gate.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  The deserted wife had not done badly either.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  The slope below them was deserted.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The gray troops passed by empty mansions, deserted farms, lonely cabins with doors ajar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  Behind the ruins the row of whitewashed slave quarters stood silent and deserted under the overhanging trees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  It was burned, in ruins, deserted, as were all the plantations she had passed that day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  She could have left them in Atlanta, dumped Melanie into the hospital and deserted her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  The road lay still and deserted and never a cloud of red dust proclaimed the approach of visitors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  "I said some terrible things to him that night when he deserted us on the road, but I can make him forget them," she thought contemptuously, still sure of her power to charm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  The soldiers on the square had taken shelter in their huts and the streets were deserted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  It was dinner time and the streets were deserted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  I never knowed one who deserted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
14  For once his good manners had deserted him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  No, Scarlett did not like to remember the way the deserted County looked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
Example Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
16  Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.
17  He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
18  This area of the country is mostly desert.
19  Much of the country is uninhabitable because it is desert.
20  This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
21  Cactus is a type of green desert plant.
22  They set up camp on the verge of the desert.
23  The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.
24  The land loses its protective cover of vegetation and soon turns into desert.
25  The theatre and cinema closed and the town became a cultural desert.
26  This town is a cultural/intellectual desert.
27  If you get lost in the desert,calculate your direction by the sun and keep moving,then you're sure to get somewhere.
28  The paper's price rise will encourage readers to desert in even greater numbers.
29  Eventually they happened on a road leading across the desert.
30  It is impossible to make plants grow in a desert without irrigation.