Sentence examples for remain deserted from inspiring English sources

Many houses remain deserted and shops shuttered.

Rare merchants say they can go all day without a single customer, while at night entire streets remain deserted.

While the tsunami-ravaged Tohoku region plans its recovery (see main text), contaminated areas around the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are a no-man's land that may remain deserted for decades.

The closest towns to the stricken plant remain deserted and off-limits to the public, although some former residents have started to return to their homes, some of which are less than 20 kms away, as decontamination work progresses.

A protest area in the nearby Khost neighbourhood remained deserted, with a byzantine process for gaining permission from the local authority to demonstrate cited as one reason why it remained empty.

The streets of Visakhapatnam, one of the largest cities in south-east India and home to a major naval base, remain largely deserted.

For years after it was bombed during the Persian Gulf war, it had remained a deserted shell.

Rubble and heavy damage remain on a deserted street during a government escorted visit to Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, April 9, 2015.

But there were still huge gaps in service, the biggest being the subway system, which remained dark and deserted as night fell, missing the evening rush for a second day.

Though he was often resistant to the notion that loneliness was his metier, his central theme, his scenes of men and women in deserted cafes, offices and hotel lobbies remain signature images of urban isolation.

A few remain, like the Hebrew-inscribed doors of a deserted Orthodox shul being converted to condominiums and the old entryway to Wolfie's, a beloved coffee shop demolished for a condo building that will keep the faded front as a relic.