desolate
Example Sentences
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From her earliest years, Emily thrilled to the austere glories of the landscape, with its great desolate stretches of rocky turf and rushing waterways all shaped and pummeled by winds that whistled and “wuthered.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
It is the novel’s desolate mood, finally, and Ms. McPherson’s evocation of a melancholy landscape that anchor both her plot and her heroine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
On de-boarding, the last station bore the look of a desolate Soviet-era structure rather than a bustling train terminal in a city where crowds typically jostle for space.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
The 36-year-old must constantly scan the desolate, drought-ravaged terrain for loose wires and suspicious debris.
From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026
She was left with the desolate certainty that her father would have done again what he did fifteen years ago.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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