desolate

The wives and children are arbitrarily detained in sprawling desolate tented camps that amount to open-air prisons.

On a fishing trip, Nick gets off the train in his boyhood terrain, the wilderness of northern Michigan, and finds himself in a burnt, desolate, war-like landscape.

Du Maurier sets her tale in December, in agricultural Cornwall, one of the most desolate and isolated counties of England.

This is Western Australia mining territory - the landscape is barren and desolate, just the odd hill in the distance.

Once bustling with city employees, the Civic Center mall has been made desolate by telecommuting options and online access to municipal departments.