Sentence examples for long deserted from inspiring English sources

Paul Raymond may still have had the appetite for a legal fight but his showman attributes had long deserted him.

It is an ancient Ceylonese capital that was long deserted but has been revived in modern times.

And the Labradors too have long deserted these shores, although I met one friendly Lab and a shaggy Newfoundland posted to welcome arriving cruise-ship passengers.

Long, deserted beaches stretch beyond, though the open Pacific sea and stories of rip tides ensured none of us dared go in.

Flood arrived when Scotland were flagging but he brought a menace and an attraction to risk that have long deserted his former mentor.

By Allen Saalburg The New Yorker, September 2 , 1933P. 20 Tells of a man who returned to look at a house in the country, long deserted which had burned down some years before, leaving only the charred remains.

But it might be the manna to sustain it through the long desert trek.

Libya's long desert borders will require controlling by an effective force.

Enki and his fellow gods were about to wake from their long desert sleep.

Many people didn't hang around to find out precisely what that meant, and took the long desert track south.

Syria shares a long desert border with Iraq, where an insurgency is in its ninth year, and it remains officially at war with Israel.