Deserters is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deserters meaning
plural of deserter
Using Deserters
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of deserter
- In the example corpus, deserters often appears in combinations such as: deserters from, the deserters, deserters and.
Context around Deserters
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Deserters
- In this selection, "deserters" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, army, partisans, enterprising, though, running and based stand out and add context to how "deserters" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include also pardoned deserters who were and and confederate deserters who had. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "deserters" sits close to words such as abbasid, acrobatics and admissible, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with deserters
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The rest are Venezuelan army deserters. (6 words)
President Ford announced conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders. (12 words)
He believed the deserters might have buried some of the stolen gold at the site. (15 words)
However, the Moatzos Gedolei and Chachmei HaTorah and Roshei Yeshivos, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, have instructed bnei yeshivos not to respond to the initial summons, which means that bnei yeshivos will be branded as deserters. (35 words)
The plot, exposed by The Associated Press two days before the incursion, was carried out by a ragtag group of Venezuelan army deserters whom Goudreau allegedly helped arm and train in neighboring Colombia. (33 words)
After agreeing to speak with the BBC on condition of anonymity, a group of Venezuelan deserters based in a church in Cúcuta described what pushed them to leave President Maduro's armed forces. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Persecution of deserters It is believed that there were more than three million deserters from the Red Army in 1919 and 1920.
Artyom doesn't have much sympathy for draft dodgers and deserters, though he can see the wisdom in making a run for it.
During the Second World War, the train ferried civilian refugees and evacuees, partisans, deserters, and besieged foreign military units from Italy to neutral Switzerland.
However, the Moatzos Gedolei and Chachmei HaTorah and Roshei Yeshivos, both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, have instructed bnei yeshivos not to respond to the initial summons, which means that bnei yeshivos will be branded as deserters.
I suspect these are among the more enterprising deserters because, while males of military age are banned from leaving Ukraine, they are allowed to go abroad for military training.
Russian forces are now searching for the deserters – which, instead of bolstering its forces, could put a further strain on the Kremlin.
The plot, exposed by The Associated Press two days before the incursion, was carried out by a ragtag group of Venezuelan army deserters whom Goudreau allegedly helped arm and train in neighboring Colombia.
Those to his left felt that he should have also pardoned deserters, who were more often from impoverished backgrounds.
While no one can answer that question, it is highly likely that there would have been at least some deserters running toward the ships.
Dean Summers from the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) told NBN News the Taiwanese shipping company has labelled the seafarers deserters.
The rest are Venezuelan army deserters.
After agreeing to speak with the BBC on condition of anonymity, a group of Venezuelan deserters based in a church in Cúcuta described what pushed them to leave President Maduro's armed forces.
Like the ragged band of deserters it depicts, A Field in England’s audience feels both trapped and lost.
Various Rajapaksa spokesmen claimed that the purpose of the siege was to arrest hundreds of armed army deserters Gen. Fonseka was keeping inside Cinnamon Lakeside.
He believed the deserters might have buried some of the stolen gold at the site.
He was convinced the deserters had come this far north at the suggestion that this was the legendary Aztlan spoken of by the Aztecs.
Lenin denounced Zinoviev and Kamenev as deserters and pointed out that they had behaved in a similar “strike-breaking” fashion before the uprising.
President Ford announced conditional amnesty for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.
The number of the deserters, especially those angered by Fayose’s high-handedness, is increasing.
A controversy arose May 3, 1864 about whether Forrest conducted or condoned a massacre of negro soldiers, white Tennessee Unionists, and Confederate deserters, who had surrendered there.
Common combinations with deserters
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- deserters from 11×
- the deserters 10×
- deserters and 9×
- and deserters 5×
- of deserters 4×
- army deserters 4×
- deserters in 3×
- deserters it 2×
- million deserters 2×
- as deserters 2×