1.   On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping.

2.   Beyond the hotel swimming pool, the beach was deserted.

3.   Driving down the Gulf Coast highway in search of another RV park, we noticed the beaches were oddly deserted at midday.

4.   On this particular afternoon the beach was almost deserted.

5.   On a cold, rainy evening, the beach was nearly deserted.

6.   The beaches are virtually deserted.

7.   The beach was deserted that day five years ago as my son and I hunted for smooth stones to skip across the water.

8.   The famed beaches are mostly deserted.

9.   When they first moved in, wild horses showed up in their yard, and the beaches were mostly deserted, even in summer.