deserted
Example Sentences
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As dawn broke, large areas of the usually busy capital were deserted and shops remained shuttered.
From Barron's
When I finally rolled up, I realized what I thought was the end point was a deserted Mongolian shepherd village.
After a few days of argument, these men took some supplies, deserted the Advance, and set off across the ice to try to save themselves.
From Literature
The film exhibits no sense of how to stage a surprise, settling instead for hackish tricks like having a character nonsensically appear in, say, the middle of a deserted street as though arriving via drone.
The sun was beginning to set as we drove back to the paramedic base, and a city that once came alive at night, would soon be deserted.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
