Sentence examples for to desert from inspiring English sources

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to desert

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.

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Forests give way to desert.

They had no choice but to desert.

After his troubles, this uncanny knack seemed to desert him.

Whatever you think about the political situation, to desert!

The metamorphosis from city creature to desert dweller took time.

His troops were neither acclimatized nor adapted to desert warfare.

Indeed, later on, some of them were to desert him.

Plant life ranges from pine forest to desert cactus.

His usual good instincts seemed to desert him.

Here three months sufficed for my body to desert me.

Sunflowers, tithonia and verbascum also stand up to desert conditions.

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