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How to use deserting in a sentence

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We sped through the desert past miles of abandoned Iraqi military positions and deserting Iraqi soldiers on our way to Kirkuk.
Harr was craven, had always been, and the little courage he'd summoned up to come out here and try to take her down was deserting him fast.
At the end, the Indian heroine commits suicide by biting a poisonous datura flower because her British lover is deserting her.
White working class voters are deserting social democratic parties around the western world.
She had missed him terribly, but she was angry at him for deserting her when she needed him most.
Workers should also refrain from deserting their worksites at this difficult time.
Akin to rats deserting a sinking ship, four survivors flee out of the major cities to a secluded, out-of-the-way shopping mall.
He had heard stories of deserting conscripts from the Army crossing into the hands of the revolution.
Large numbers of deserting sailors, furthermore, left to join the merchant marine for large-scale smuggling and trade with the enemy.
Some described false confidence as the ultimate fair-weather friend, buoying you when times are good and deserting you when they're bad.
In Germany, opinion polls have indicated that traditional voters are profoundly disillusioned with the Party and are deserting it in droves.
Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.
I picked at my food, my entire appetite deserting me after the first few mouthfuls.
They are also astute at maintaining public sympathy by regularly deserting the picket lines to save lives.
He blows another great scoring opportunity, with his touch and nerve deserting him as soon as the Milan goal hoves into view.
In time, both find their votaries deserting them to worship the god of riches, and so apply for readmission to the heavens.
I risked my neck to save these peoples lives, and they were deserting me.
The menace of grooms deserting their legally wedded wives is rampant.
The millions who until now have been denied political representation have thus far expressed their dissatisfaction and alienation by deserting their old party.
The siege was dragging on and he feared that his siege soldiers would grow weary and start deserting.
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He's been bringing all his psychopathic patter to bear on me, and you're deserting me.
Decision instantly made, Costigan ran back toward the speedster, but he was not deserting his companions.
Only recently, after the lapse of years, did I learn the cause of their deserting me.
The unpardonable sin of a deserting legionnaire is to rob France of the uniform lent him for his soldiering.
There were some who could not be persuaded to stay if they could see any chance of deserting or malingering.
Terrified by that threat, Valerie had blenched, and had felt her spirit deserting her.
Wide tracts were laid waste, and the peasantry, deserting their fields, had joined in the fights or gone across the Salween.
Waite swore audibly, his eyes never once deserting the girl's face.
But, then, Dallam was a ratty soul and was for deserting a sinking ship.
Then is this the reason you give for deserting us as you have deserted Devil's Ford?
I do not think they will object to deserting with us to the free world.
As far as could be learned from a casual inspection, Jacinto and his deserting Indians had taken back with them only a small quantity of food.
The Hurons staggered, deserting the center of their line, and Uncas issued from the forest through the opening they left, at the head of a hundred warriors.
He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court, Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye, Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig On the charge of deserting its sty.
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