Sentence examples for the deserting from inspiring English sources
verb
To leave (anything that depends on one's presence to survive, exist, or succeed), especially when contrary to a promise or obligation; to abandon; to forsake.
- You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
Just as the small ads will never return to print, the deserting display advertisers will not come back either.
The babe is the daughter of the original and its mother the hermit's daughter, Agnes - the one-time tot whom the deserting wife took with her.
Consistent with this suggestion is that desertion is beneficial for the deserting individual, although costly to its mate [ 30].
Desertion is beneficial for the deserting parent, since it improves his/her chances for reproduction in future, whereas it is costly for the abandoned mate in terms of time and energy spent on reproduction [ 7, 14- 17].
We found (like the deserting) spacious calm,.
LONDON — The Olympic, with 1,400 passengers on board, was still at anchor at Spithead last night [April 25], the deserting firemen not having returned to the ship.
Beware the desert hammock".
"The desert always menaces".
