What's the difference between deserted and forsaken?

Deserted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Desert

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (2) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
  • (3) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
  • (4) Rising losses among the nearly 350,000-strong Afghan army and police, and a desertion rate of about 50,000 a year, also support Karzai's contention that control of large parts of the country remains tenuous.
  • (5) An opening sequence described as “spectacular” by Amazon insiders – featuring 6,000 extras in the Californian desert, according to some reports – is estimated to have cost £2.5m alone.
  • (6) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
  • (7) Forty soil samples from different desert localities in Kuwait were surveyed for keratinophilic and geophilic dermatophytic fungi.
  • (8) The disappointing weather at Easter left beaches deserted but some Britons, who were determined to enjoy the outdoors this time round, have already had their plans thwarted by the weather, taking to websites such as ukcampsite.co.uk to swap tales of woe, such as farmers calling to cancel bookings because sites were waterlogged.
  • (9) Harman said the reasons that made some voters desert Labour for Ukip were not all about Europe , but broader issues.
  • (10) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
  • (11) Natural foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis are located mainly in the deserts of Middle Asia.
  • (12) Further south is Ghadames, one of the most ancient settlements in north Africa , which Unesco calls “the pearl of the desert”.
  • (13) The far western deserts of China have been filled with wind farms and solar panels.
  • (14) "It wasn't a case of a Labour party that had deserted its principles," he said.
  • (15) Average prevalence for the country as a whole for people above the age of 10 was 4.3%, with distinct geographical differences: 5.7% in urban areas, 4.1% in rural agricultural areas, and 1.5% in rural desert areas.
  • (16) squeaks Tess, spinning around outside the reception at MediaCityUK, pointing at the deserted metallic acropolis.
  • (17) There is, however, a converse way of looking at the situation, Which is often neglected but which may be of general biological interest: does the evolution of adaptations to desert environments necessarily involve loss of viability in more mesic habitats?
  • (18) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
  • (19) Back to article (4) Here I asked him about Barry White, a Desert Island Disc choice of his in 1978, which he had no recollection of.
  • (20) The fighters now look fat in winter combat jackets of as many different camouflage patterns as the origins of their units, hunched against a freezing wind that whips off the desert scrub.

Forsaken


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Forsake

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (2) Chlamydia is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that severely challenges the patience and creativity of all its investigators--even to the point that some investigators have forsaken this field for more productive and fertile areas of research.
  • (3) They removed dictators, they gave ordinary men and women a voice, and perhaps most important of all, they put the problems of an oppressed, forsaken people on the global political agenda – people just like those who, before Wednesday's ceasefire, were being killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
  • (4) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
  • (5) What must have made matters worse is the absence of any discernible indication that Dyke has forsaken his former profession.
  • (6) But the judge warned that he would be released only when he was no longer a danger to the public and had forsaken his radical views.
  • (7) The real effect will [come] this summer when it’s clear they have no income.” Back on Ray Pool’s forsaken farm, this realisation is beginning to sink in.
  • (8) We returned to Israel so that Jewish blood may not be forsaken...
  • (9) "To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken, you will not be ­forgotten," he said.
  • (10) Why has God forsaken us, and allowed others to reach the moon?” And now Turkey stands tall, a voice unto the nations (and Tayyip Erdoğan, from his training on the soccer pitch and a religious school, indeed has a voice, part uplift-sermon, part referee-harangue, though its rhetorical effect does not translate).
  • (11) The Interrogators and the guards always hinted at the “God-forsaken nowhere” I was in, but I ignored them completely, and when the guards asked me “Where do you think you are?” I just responded, “I’m not sure, but I am not worried about it; since I am far from my family, it doesn’t really matter to me where I am.” And so I always closed the door whenever they referred to the place.
  • (12) We are so frustrated that the leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn , seems to have forsaken the principle of international solidarity,” he said.
  • (13) "I sacrificed my job and now my reputation and the Egyptian media has forsaken me, there was some support before and now that is gone.
  • (14) As for rubbing shoulders with dictators, Ilyumzhinov does have a talent for turning up in countries most public figures have long since forsaken.
  • (15) Now the universities are committed only to showing that they're trying awfully hard to recruit the working classes; targets have been forsaken, and the universities will publish their provisional top-up fees this year in anticipation of - not waiting on - Harris approving them.
  • (16) Our study showed that for these unstable fractures, fixation with an angled plate or Ender nails should be forsaken.
  • (17) It was their third successive league defeat, for the first time in the Roman Abramovich era, and though the owner will never divulge his thoughts publicly it must be startling for everyone connected with the club that we are only in Bonfire Night week and Mourinho has already forsaken his record of having never lost seven times in a single season.
  • (18) As the power struggle rages, the people of Turkey feel betrayed and forsaken.
  • (19) "The international fight against Aids cannot succeed if local partners are forsaken when the political winds shift," the letter adds.
  • (20) We must ensure that, as online marketplaces revolutionise the way we live, laws designed to promote safety and quality-of-life are not forsaken under the pretext of innovation.” The attorney general’s report lays out an argument for why some of the site’s top hosts are gentrifying New York neighbourhoods, running illegal hotels, potentially avoiding millions in taxes and disturbing residential buildings.