desolate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Or your favorite vacation spot might be the perfect beach town in the summer, but desolate and lonely in the winter.
From MarketWatch
The desolate morning we had first walked into suddenly blossoms into a different type of festive crowd.
From Salon
As Sánchez would learn, Spaniards discovered gold in 1771 in a desolate area 50 miles south of what is now Arizona.
From Los Angeles Times
The wives and children are arbitrarily detained in sprawling desolate tented camps that amount to open-air prisons.
From BBC
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
