How to Use deserter in a Sentence

deserter

noun

• 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
• Based on his conviction, Hoff was declared a deserter from the Army and discharged.
  — CBS News, 22 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Morales was branded as a deserter before his remains were found about a year later.
  — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2020
• In other times, a deserter could face a range of penalties, including up to five years’ confinement.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• After a Navy deserter accidentally comes out of hiding, the team and Charlie 1 must investigate who is targeting his family.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
• In Syria, Wagner fighters were filmed gleefully beating a Syrian army deserter with a sledgehammer before cutting off his head.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 May 2022
• Some Russian courts still publicize military cases to create a chilling deterrent to potential deserters.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• Somehow this led to his death — beaten, tortured, decapitated, his corpse then crucified and burnt — in a notorious video disseminated as an apparent warning to deserters.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 5 May 2023
• Medvedev fled to Norway in January to request asylum after reportedly witnessing the mercenary group’s fighters capturing and executing deserters.
  — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Spain expelled another deserter, Mohamed Abdellah, a dissident gendarme, to Algeria last August.
  — Elaine Ganley, ajc, 28 May 2022

Last Updated: 9 Aug 2024