deserter

How To Use deserter In A Sentence

• Soldiers are considered deserters when they remain AWOL for more than 30 days.
• The marshland areas were areas that dissidents could go and hide in, deserters from the army could go and hide in.
• Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
• As in the Canadian campaign, returning soldiers and deserters carried smallpox home with them, sparking outbreaks that lasted well into 1777 in tidewater Virginia and Maryland.
• Rather than finding the deserters, the army tends simply to write off the missing soldiers and dismiss them in their absence.
• With the help of military deserters, they stormed the prison and forced its surrender, massacring the commander who had fired on them early in the attack.
• But the tribunals' caseload amounted largely to dealing with deserters, known Confederate agents, and foreign nationals in Confederate service.
• And she remembered during the Civil War her father weren't in the war, but he would search for what they call a deserter, hunt deserters. Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, 1976 September 2. Interview H-66. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Flossie Moore Durham
• We hunted up the deserters in the forest last week.
• The Appalachian Mountains, Florida swamps, and Texas chaparral became the domain of armed bands of Southern deserters.