How to Use deserter in a Sentence

deserter

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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
  • 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
  • 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 | Jarchibald@al.com, 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
  • The invasion against Mexico saw a staggering number of deserters.
    — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • 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

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