desolate
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West Ham manager Nuno Espirito Santo was desolate, insisting everyone in the game is now confused as to what constituted a foul in the penalty area at set-pieces.
From BBC ● May 10, 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
It is one of dozens of now desolate or sparsely used EV parts plants across the country.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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
A desolate banging, from a girl who could count the years since she felt any real presence on the other side of that door.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
He visits Barbara's soup kitchen shelter and proves with an open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sudden death of Leontes' young son desolates him.
From Time Magazine Archive
But your misrepresentation which pained me most, in fact desolates me to the extent that I am unfit for work, is your statement that I weigh 200 Ib.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why should the sunbeam paint thy glittering clime, When the keen mildew desolates the field!
From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James
Fatal for us that beauty's torturing view, Living or dead alike which desolates our peace.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
"This was the first time I realized what an enormous task it was to take a piece of desolated desert and turn it into a blooming oasis," Zer writes.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024
Hospital director Dr Muhammad Abu Salima has called on the WHO and the UN to help the medical teams and patients "leave this desolated place".
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023
She walked alone through its desolated main street, Khreschatyk.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
Even in the depths of the pandemic — even when the world locked down, leaving billions isolated and desolated — there were those who danced.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Still—I was desolated when he climbed away and headed back west.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
When D’Amore isn’t speaking — and for most of those three minutes and 40 seconds, she is silent — her body language is desolating.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2019
“The simple way...to put an end to the savage and desolating war now waged by the slaveholders, is to strike down slavery itself, the primal cause of that war.”
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It sounds as if your mother is relatively young herself, so this is a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s which is even more desolating.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2015
As the actors take up their places, a desolating video begins to play.
From The Guardian ● May 11, 2013
From a distant radio I heard the desolating music of a dance orchestra.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Vocabulary lists containing desolate
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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