How to Use deserter in a Sentence
deserter
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Rachel knows that William is too good to be a deserter.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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The opposition needs just three more deserters from the party to pass the bill.
—Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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Her adult self takes a deep breath and drives her heel into the centre of her deserter sibling’s face, knocking him to the ground.
—Roslyn Talusan, refinery29.com, 14 Sep. 2021
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Morales had been listed as a deserter, but now the Army says foul play is suspected.
—Chris Kilmer, ABC News, 11 June 2021
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Soon, none other than the five deserters joined them, having landed a little way down the beach.
—Eric Jay Dolin, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2024
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Based on his conviction, Hoff was declared a deserter from the Army and discharged.
—CBS News, 22 Nov. 2021
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Al Shabaab has issued a fatwa calling for the murder of any deserters, and a number of them have been shot and killed in the Majengo slum.
—Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2013
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He was declared a deserter and assigned to serve the rest of his tour as a Marine food service specialist — a.k.a.
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
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They were referred to as traitors and deserters by PGA Tour supporters and what then seemed like a large, vocal portion of golf fans.
—Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 18 June 2024
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Morales was branded as a deserter before his remains were found about a year later.
—Fox News, 15 Aug. 2020
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In other times, a deserter could face a range of penalties, including up to five years’ confinement.
—Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
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Despite this, the number of deserters continues to rise.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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Corporal punishment is severe: the coward or deserter is tied to a tree and beaten by his age-mates.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2011
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Anyone who attempted to escape corvée labor was treated like a deserter, and many were shot.
—New York Times, 20 May 2022
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And a story has been handed down about a Confederate deserter who hid beneath the cliffs near Steele and survived with help from a local widow who was kind enough to bring him food.
—John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
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In 1782, they were tasked with apprehending Hessian deserters, earning a reward of two guineas for each one recovered, whether dead or alive.
—Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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Still, the officer harbors no ill will toward deserters.
—Samya Kullab and Volodymyr Yurchuk, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
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Anawrahta was an 11th-century Buddhist king who established a Burmese empire, and the name carries a special meaning to the military, said the deserter, Zin Yaw.
—David Rising and, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
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The series follows a team of Korean military police who are tasked with catching deserters.
—Manori Ravindran, Variety, 7 July 2023
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A month after his disappearance, he was declared a deserter.
—Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
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After 30 days — or earlier if leaders had reason to believe Crisostomo didn’t intend to return or was high risk — she would have been declared a deserter.
—Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
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No less dumbfounding is a passage that recounts, in obscene detail, the execution of a Wehrmacht deserter.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
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No longer a savior of filmmakers, Annapurna became a deserter of them.
—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
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Russian deserters who agree to testify in such hearings should be guaranteed that they will not be extradited to Russia.
—Kristina Hook, Foreign Affairs, 28 July 2022
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In exchange for help starting a new life, the Imperial deserter brings word of a powerful, potentially invaluable tool for their fight against the Empire.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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Often, the same trafficking networks that are involved in bringing fighters to Russia also help getting deserters out.
—Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
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Indeed, the sledgehammer has become the group’s calling card after its members filmed themselves clubbing a Syrian army deserter in 2017, cutting off his hands and head with a shovel, then setting his body alight.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
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Because of the security risks faced by Russian deserters, pseudonyms are used throughout.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
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Closer to the border, Ukrainian soldiers scrutinize passports and overturn sleeper beds looking for deserters and stowaways.
—Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
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The invasion against Mexico saw a staggering number of deserters.
—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
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