Why are the lights turned out as I approach and the streets deserted?

Quite suddenly the street was quiet again, still and deserted in the bright moonlight.

People could have just crawled inside to die, leaving the streets deserted.

Traffic was light at this hour, some streets deserted.

The street was anything but deserted, despite the darkness.

The kind of weather that keeps people inside, and the streets nearly deserted.

He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark.

The street in front of the warehouse was quiet but not deserted as it would be later.

Besides ourselves the street was now deserted, the hour of curfew long since past.

Shops are closed and streets deserted from one to four o'clock in the afternoon.