desolate
Example Sentences
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PHOENIX—On a desolate stretch of land dotted with cactuses some 30 minutes north of Phoenix, more than 30 cranes tower over a construction site 2½ times the size of New York City’s Central Park.
“Usually, people go to a destination,” said Andriy Bratash, who captained the ship that carried Brown to the southern Pacific’s desolate center.
It stretches northward into desolate permafrost regions flush with “oil sands” that produce about nine times as much crude as Alaska.
I thought about going with Bright to the lake till my head hurt, and I got home from school that afternoon in a desolate mood, only to find Ma in bed with fever.
From Literature
It resembles a space mission, with an intrepid rover traversing desolate distant terrain.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
