desolate
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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
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
It resembles a space mission, with an intrepid rover traversing desolate distant terrain.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
It looked desolate and black — destroyed businesses, block after block of homes burned to the ground, the mountains behind denuded and black as coal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
The hospital ward had dissipated like smoke into that desolate stretch of earth, surrounded by shadowed structures.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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