“Friendless, persecuted, poor, about the early age of twenty-two, was the greatest poet which the world has ever seen, compelled to desert his home, his wife, his children, to seek employment from the hands of strangers.”

“If you now desert the cause of liberty, in this most honorable and important contest, we can have no fellowship with you.”

“Once it was apparent that the battle was lost, the troops began to desert en masse.”

“Most of this area is desert or desertified sand suitable only for grazing.”

“Effects of long-term cattle exclosure on vegetation and rodents at a desertified arid grassland site.”

“We sped through the desert past miles of abandoned Iraqi military positions and deserting Iraqi soldiers on our way to Kirkuk.”

“At the end, the Indian heroine commits suicide by biting a poisonous datura flower because her British lover is deserting her.”

“Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.”