The deserted town was no longer a priority. The female lion deserted the dead gazelle, seeing that the male lion was returning to his earlier kill. You deserted my heart the minute you said it's over. The FBI swarmed the property, guns out ready to fire, only to find it deserted. Did any of these help at all? Storming into the deserted ghost town on his noble steed, the cowboy had the look of vengeance in his eyes. The heartbroken husband cried out in anguish when he came home to find his town house deserted of all the memories of his family. Amy felt a strange feeling come over her when she found her dollhouse deserted in the middle of the night.
We never really hung out, or had anything more than desultory conversations.
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Who or what the sentence is about is the subject of the sentence.
The subject of a sentence is who or what that sentence is about.
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We never really hung out, or had anything more than desultory conversations.
For days and days the desultory firing went on; it seemed like the war would never end.
Desultory is derived from a french word, desilire (to leap down) - its English meaning is: lacking in consistency, random
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The cast of Desultory Research at the Oates Lab - 2011 includes: Frances Mitchell as Miss Renee Gallagher
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Cursory means superficial and the synonyms for this adjective are: brief, careless, desultory, offhand, etc.
I know "A Simple Desultory Philippic" by Simon and Garfunkel, and "Mr. Jones and Me" by Counting Crows. But there are a couple others that elude me.
Here are some excellent vocabulary words from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None: austere, adroit, aversion, ascend, assuage, capricious, desultory, evasive, futile, fraternize, impromptu, inert, laconic, malevolence, monotonous, maudlin, replete, sagacious, scrupulous, surreptitious, tumultuous, tacit, vehement, verisimilitude