How to Use desertion in a Sentence

desertion

noun

• Vallow could face up to 14 years in prison for each count of desertion of a child.
  — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2020
• Each year, a quarter of the Afghan armed forces had to be replaced due to desertion.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2021
• The decision was a hedge against desertion or the selling of weapons on the black market.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2021
• She was charged with felony desertion of the children, police said in a statement.
  — CBS News, 24 Feb. 2020
• In addition to her two child desertion charges, Garrett was booked on the same gun and drug charges as Williams.
  — Emily Lane, NOLA.com, 14 June 2017
• Many Kurds cite the Iraqi forces' desertion as a reason why the Peshmerga fighters can’t give back the city.
  — Time, 24 Sep. 2017
• He was sentenced by a military judge to 12 months in prison for desertion and one month on each of the four other counts.
  — Kayla McCormick, NBC News, 22 Sep. 2024
• Bergdahl faces up to life in prison on charges of desertion and misbehavior in front of the enemy.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• She was charged with two felony counts of child desertion, along with three misdemeanors, and held on $5 million bond.
  — Allie Yang, Maryellen Resendez, Gwen Gowen, ABC News, 2 Mar. 2021
• The biggest challenge of my time there was the Bowe Bergdahl desertion and rescue attempts that followed.
  — Jason Hoffman, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2021
• This time, he was arrested for desertion, escaped and went to New York to his uncle's farm.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The island itself has an air of desertion but not of extreme despair.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• None of this seems destined to end well; the opening sequence is both tense and intense, riffing on old-school fears of parental loss or desertion.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 July 2021
• But Tremlett also makes note of those who used the chaos of the war to commit crimes or who were executed for desertion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• But the foreknowledge doesn’t offer much comfort when the song confirms the desertion.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• During wartime, the most severe punishments for desertion are death and up to life in prison, said Lt. Cmdr.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
• Among the charges Vallow faces are two felony counts of desertion and non-support of dependent children.
  — Ella Torres, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Refusing to serve or desertion is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• But the opposition campaigns were lackluster due to infighting and desertions in the run-up to the vote.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• But when Jones changed his mind and returned to the English camp, all Roe could offer him was a return ticket to England and a trial for desertion.
  — Balaji Ravichandran, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
• Now, Fort Lauderdale police have given him two charges: grand theft of a motor vehicle and desertion of a child.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 5 Apr. 2018
• Bergdahl faces up to life in prison on charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after pleading guilty to the charges last week.
  — Bloomberg.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Bergdahl pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy and had faced up to life in prison.
  — idahostatesman, 3 Nov. 2017
• But it’s been plagued by desertions in recent years as the oil-rich nation’s economy went belly up under Maduro’s watch.
  — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• She's charged with two felony counts of desertion and nonsupport of dependent children, KPD said.
  — Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2020
• Bowe Bergdahl — who pleaded guilty to charges of desertion — in exchange for five Taliban commanders.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• Now Kelley faces charges of unlawful desertion of a child across county lines and child neglect – both third-degree felonies.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2020
• Kamil Kasimov was arrested, forcibly returned to Russia and sentenced to six years in prison for desertion.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
• The first of the three cases, the Army case, was cited in some back-and-forth over whether Sergeant Bergdahl was unfairly hit with two charges, desertion and misbehavior, for one act, leaving his post.
  — Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times, 25 Oct. 2017
• But the Russians were shelling the area so hard that by mid-June, the 80-person combat unit had — because of desertions, casualties and other problems — been cut down to 25.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024