My wife and child deserted me years ago.

On January 24, 1952, the wife deserted the husband.

The wife had then deserted the husband and was temporarily wrongfully away from home; but she might at any time return.

A wife deserted her husband to run off with burglars in animal masks.

Dadda might have been a lot different, Stephen thought, if his wife hadn't deserted him.

He maintained that his wife had deserted him and was practising prostitution.

His mother burned all her pots because she feared that the extended family would catch the disease from them, and his wife deserted him.

He had deserted the job shortly after his wife deserted him and had not worked "for a couple months."

He was killed on a ship near Tyre, after his wife had deserted him.

In 1621 his wife deserted him and went to live with Sir Robert Howard.