desolate
Example Sentences
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“The moon was really a beautiful environment. Desolate, but yet it had beauty about it,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2022
Desolate street corners filled by Laker-clad prayer groups.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2020
Desolate saxophone notes weaving through a perseverating synthesizer and rapidly tapping, tapping, tapping drum machine.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2017
Desolate, she sometimes implores the telephone to ring: “Is there no one in the whole world who would like to speak to me on any matter, however trifling?”
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2016
Desolate was the look that they exchanged, and silently did they begin to weep, as their mother took one of them in either hand, and sorrowfully remounted the path.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
Vocabulary lists containing desolate
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Zilch, Zip, Nada: Words For Nothing
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