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How to use desertion in a sentence

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Officers and men from units which had been forced to abandon their positions were shot for desertion.
Any desertion on Edith's part is terminated by Robert agreeing to the separation.
We confined our trapping to the late stages of incubation to minimize nest desertion due to trapping procedures.
Paradoxically, the distrust is further fuelled by the desertion of an assistant counsel on the team last month.
His guilt about his desertion of the weaker boy was to provide the story of his television play Old Flames.
The desertion of the small family farm constitutes the largest population movement in American history.
Novels of alienation and misery are common currency, tales of abuse, violence and desertion are run-of-the-mill stuff for British fiction.
The wife may ask for divorce based on impotence, non-support, and desertion or lengthy absence.
High densities of argasid ticks have been linked to egg and seabird nestlings desertion and lower survival of Cattle Egrets.
She plans to crash the party and reveal that she is Godfrey's wife so that she can avenge Godfrey's desertion.
Their suspicions focussed particularly on what Cornwallis and his kind characterized as sloth and desertion.
This has created a crisis in the armed forces with high desertion rates, poor morale and a sharp drop in military recruitment.
The Gallicans in France and the Protestants abroad pointed to this decision of the king as a desertion of his principles.
Congress first offered service pensions to officers in 1781, in order to prevent mass desertion.
When desertion was only suspected after two checks, further checks were conducted until the status of the nest became clear.
Divorce can be obtained on the bases of adultery, intolerable behavior, desertion, and de facto separation.
The desertion hit us hard, largely because we already knew how difficult the situation was in Toronto's two downtown Chinatowns before SARS hit.
The tedium of dredging and sounding very likely accounted for the high attrition of ship's personnel by desertion.
Anyone seeking to leave the movement was declared an enemy of God and threatened with death for apostasy and desertion.
But the legal proceedings could drag on for years, and since desertion is not an extraditable offense, his clients are safe for some time.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was no crime black enough, no desertion, no cruelty horrible enough to outspeed her pity.
But, talk as he might, in Johnny Rosenfeld's loyal heart there was no thought of desertion.
There are gradations in the practice of desertion, and it is not confined to men.
The greatest wrong you can inflict upon me will be inflicted by your desertion.
This is the just and honourable ground of that dissidence of feeling on the part of Talleyrand that culminated in desertion.
May I be eternally punished for the desertion in which I am forced to leave you!
He felt again the eeriness of this desertion, and hurried on past the silent places.
What a commentary on their desertion of him were the looks so full of benevolence and affection!
Whichever way his thoughts turned they were followed by the somber phantom of the desertion in the fields.
The sack of Ctesiphon was followed by its desertion and gradual decay.
In its place was a sense of guilt, of desertion, of unconquerable gloom.
As a result of her desertion, two infants who relied upon her to prompt them broke down ignominiously.
Should she desert her father, and could that desertion be a virtue?
It is a pusillanimous desertion of our work to gaze after our neighbors.
Damon, the morning of the eighth day after their desertion by the faithless Jacinto.
This apparent desertion puzzled the pumpkinhead, and made him uneasy.
Mishap, desertion, and shipwreck pursued the luckless commander.
Indeed he seemed to have thriven artistically since her desertion!
I had now plenty of water and good things to eat, and my conscience, which had smitten me hard for my desertion, was quieted by the great conquest I had made.
By the end of Act Three, however, their combined lives have passed through separation, unrequited love, desertion, unfaithfulness, abuse and repeated abandonment.
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