1.   Farmers are deserting their fields and coming here looking for jobs.

2.   About half a mile away, a hillside field was deserted except for a concrete cross stuck into the dirt.

3.   Former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov dropped out of the presidential race Friday, deserting a field that is already overwhelmingly dominated by Acting President Vladimir Putin.

4.   The field was unusually deserted, except for Efrain Maldonado, a family friend.

5.   The police, it seemed, had deserted the field.

6.   Young grimaced just trying to put a spiral on the ball, and he deserted the field for the locker room with two minutes remaining in the first half.

7.   Organisers had roped off sections of the grassed ground for worshippers, but the sodden sports field was mostly deserted as people retreated to the surrounding stands.