Sentence examples for lay deserted from inspiring English sources
By early the following year, entire suburbs directly east of Aleppo's historic citadel lay deserted.
In 1987, Mercedes Finat, the last resident, died and the village lay deserted until Eliane and El Gitano arrived 20 years later.
ON a recent Saturday, a day so cold the streets lay deserted, the peal of a woman's voice shook the frigid air opposite Central Park.
Calcata's inhabitants relocated a half mile up the road to a newly built town, Calcata Nuova, and except for a clutch of feral cats and a few holdouts, the old hilltop village lay deserted, awaiting a government wrecking crew.
This glorious beach could have been a shoe-in for sun loungers and parasols, but it lay deserted except for a shawled villager who had been collecting the driftwood now stacked on the back of her donkey.
With avian flu now on everybody's mind, it is worth recalling the grim images of those dark days not so long ago – when some of the busiest airports in the world lay deserted as panic-stricken, would-be travelers stayed home.
Towns lie deserted, with houses, schools and supermarkets padlocked.
Outlying villages lie deserted, torched to the ground.
Many roads into the region are closed, and villages lie deserted.
Now, the bazaar that was once known as "the Piccadilly of Central Asia" lies deserted.
