desolate

Example Sentences

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Or your favorite vacation spot might be the perfect beach town in the summer, but desolate and lonely in the winter.

From MarketWatch

The play, a parable of intimacy, begins in a desolate dive bar in the Bronx.

From Los Angeles Times

The truce brought the first respite to the Gaza Strip in seven weeks, during which Israel had bombed swathes of the territory, especially the north, including Gaza City, into a desolate moonscape.

From Reuters

"When I first came here the market was desolate, there was nothing there and not the sort of place you would want to visit."

From BBC

In an isolated settler outpost on a desolate hilltop outside Hebron, hard line Jewish nationalists carrying weapons told me they were waiting for the chance to use them against Palestinians.

From BBC