adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
deserted/empty (= with no one on it )
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We took a boat to a deserted beach.
empty/deserted (= with no people )
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As he walked home, the street was deserted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beach
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Take care not to swim out too far, particularly on deserted beaches .
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The sunset over a deserted beach .
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She had bathed naked from a deserted beach with this man, and lain with him afterwards among sand-dunes.
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When it was sunny we picnicked among the forest's ponies and searched for fossils on deserted beaches .
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Like Kos, Rhodes has many fine, deserted beaches but it's best getting there by car.
street
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We deployed on to the cold, deserted streets , two teams from the back gate and one from the front.
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We only drove as far as a deserted street by the railroad tracks in our hometown so we could make out.
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No, this technique is only to be used when travelling home alone, late at night, through fairly deserted streets .
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We walked up the deserted street with me breathing deeply and Jamie holding me by one elbow.
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The saucer drops between the towers, flies low over strangely deserted streets and comes suddenly to a grinding halt.
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On every deserted street gutted houses sagged open, their contents indecently exposed to view.
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Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy, almost deserted street .
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One evening, towards midnight, I was walking back to my hotel from Dana's place along a deserted street .
village
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Tatiana Rovkatch, 12, remembers the shock of seeing pictures of the deserted villages around the plant.
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He walked home through the quiet and at this hour deserted village .
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He led Maggie down the mountain to the deserted village and headed south-west, following the river bank.
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These later uses for deserted village sites need to be appreciated if the full landscape story is to be understood.
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From both deserted village sites and surviving nucleated settlements, a very complex picture of change and development is beginning to emerge.
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One day last week we stopped in a deserted village and the guerrillas led me to where lunch was being prepared.
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Like most deserted villages Great Stretton was always on the small side, but in 1563 it still contained fifteen families.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a deserted street corner
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The beach was deserted and unsafe for bathing according to the guidebook.
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Thirty years later, the steel mill town stands completely deserted .
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We passed through several deserted villages whose inhabitants had fled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For a moment he hesitated, nervous of breaking the strange stillness of the deserted landscape.
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I wondered, driving round the utterly deserted town.
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It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted , now divorced, husband.
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Not a wet, cold, grey and grizzly day on a lonely and deserted stretch of coast at Birkenhead.
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On one side was a deserted lorry park.
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So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites.
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Take care not to swim out too far, particularly on deserted beaches.