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Meaning of deserter in English
- But though a deserter, I have not quite forgot the service in which I was enlisted.
- Deserters and ship-wrecked seamen were adopted by the tribes.
- In some manner he gathered a number of English deserters round him and took to the mountains.
- Some were deserters from the confederate army, in which they had been compelled to serve.
- The deserter has escaped.
deserter | Intermediate English
Examples of deserter
deserter
The military has never detailed circumstances of his disappearance or capture, and he is not classified as a deserter.
From CBS News
The murky circumstances of his disappearance led some to label him a deserter.
From NBCNews.com
The deserters are a worthy foil, posing heavy questions for the crew: when people are reborn through the ansible are their souls transported, too?
From The Verge
But the bus was stopped by police looking for deserters.
From CBS News
And as that happens, someone who looks like it might be a human deserter or something starts rummaging through their packs.
From Gizmodo
What do anarchists, animal conservationists, and military deserters have in common?
From Slate Magazine
Certainly, highwaymen and smugglers got them illegally, often from military deserters; disarming them remained an active official pursuit.
From Slate Magazine
He was on his feet, unbuttoning his pants to moon the deserter before anyone could grab a camera -- and sitting back down, chuckling, before anyone realized he was faking it.
From Los Angeles Times
A monastery on the planet siphons off military deserters who are stuck in moralistic quandaries, questioning the role the military plays in expanding humanity's footprint in the galaxy.
From The Verge
Or was he a willful military deserter?
From Huffington Post
For the most part, these agreements targeted military deserters, but they also covered fugitives from serfdom and other forms of service.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Between 1914 and 1917, angry crowds in at least thirteen provinces marched on provincial prisons to demand the release of deserters and draft resisters.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
States also returned deserters, along with prisoners of war, when conflicts ended, and sometimes through formal extradition treaties in peacetime.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
You are no better than a deserter from the army in time of war.
From Project Gutenberg
This is the uniform testimony of deserters and scouts.
From Project Gutenberg
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