How to Use deserter in a Sentence

deserter

noun

• Rachel knows that William is too good to be a deserter.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• The opposition needs just three more deserters from the party to pass the bill.
  — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Morales had been listed as a deserter, but now the Army says foul play is suspected.
  — Chris Kilmer, ABC News, 11 June 2021
• 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
• Based on his conviction, Hoff was declared a deserter from the Army and discharged.
  — CBS News, 22 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Morales was branded as a deserter before his remains were found about a year later.
  — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2020
• According to some reports, defectors and deserters have been burned or frozen to death in Iraq.
  — Mara R. Revkin, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2016
• In other times, a deserter could face a range of penalties, including up to five years’ confinement.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
• Go way back to President Lincoln, who made hard decisions himself about deserters from the Army, things like that.
  — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2024
• Despite this, the number of deserters continues to rise.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Anyone who attempted to escape corvée labor was treated like a deserter, and many were shot.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 13 Aug. 2023
• In November, the country changed the law to allow first-time deserters to return without punishment.
  — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Still, the officer harbors no ill will toward deserters.
  — Samya Kullab and Volodymyr Yurchuk, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024
• 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
• The series follows a team of Korean military police who are tasked with catching deserters.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 7 July 2023
• A month after his disappearance, he was declared a deserter.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• No longer a savior of filmmakers, Annapurna became a deserter of them.
  — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The deserters were typically shot simultaneously by three or more fellow soldiers — one of whom might have been issued blanks, rather than live rounds, as was the case in the 2010 Utah execution — to blur the lines of responsibility for the death.
  — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025