desolate

The desolate morning we had first walked into suddenly blossoms into a different type of festive crowd.

As Sánchez would learn, Spaniards discovered gold in 1771 in a desolate area 50 miles south of what is now Arizona.

Roz stood on a rocky outcrop and scanned the desolate landscape.

The wives and children are arbitrarily detained in sprawling desolate tented camps that amount to open-air prisons.

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.