deserted city

collocation in English

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deserted
adjective
uk
/dɪˈzɜː.tɪd/us
/dɪˈzɝː.t̬ɪd/
If a place is deserted, there are no people ...
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city
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsɪt.i/us
/ˈsɪt̬.i/
a ...
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(Definition ofdesertedandcityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Crime took overdesertedcitycentres, all sense of community disappeared and social structures broke down.
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There are nodesertedcitycentres.
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In a narrow valley between two peaks, they find adesertedcity, apparently built by more-civilized previous generations of loonies.
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Four young farmers had one day ventured into thedesertedcity.
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The colony, which can be created over adesertedcity, ruined military base or gas station, comes with a few tools and apocalypse survivors.
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In thedesertedcity, minorities received equal rights in purchasing property.
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Near a canal, the men find a strange,desertedcitythousands of years old.
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The plot revolves around five characters who remain in thedesertedcity.
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It is an ancient anddesertedcity, populated mostly by pirates and bandits.
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After the uprising's failure, he hid in a bunker in the destroyed anddesertedcity.
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Once loaded, the armored trucks trundled off the pier and traveled throughdesertedcitystreets at midnight accompanied by a squad of police on motorcyles and in radio cars.
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Singaraja was left as adesertedcity.
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A shortage of water is said to be the main reason that the city was abandoned and it now sits in remarkably good condition as a mostlydesertedcity.
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Nome appears to be adesertedcity.
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Some people hid in thedesertedcity.
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