more desolate
Example Sentences
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It isn’t perfect symmetry—Indiana football was much more desolate than Nebraska hoops, and now the Hoosiers are roaring atop college football entering Friday’s playoff semifinal against Oregon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
Either way, the new shops and restaurants aren’t on Third Avenue, which has become ever more desolate.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023
I feel like it could have gone a sort of darker, more desolate visual style as opposed to Moebius, which is very poppy and bright.
From The Verge • Jun. 5, 2022
In trying to outmaneuver their mortality and reconnect with one another, Orpheus, Eurydice and Eurydice’s father each arrive at an oblivion more desolate and lonely than what they’d known before.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2022
She could not have conceived of a more desolate cortege.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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