desolate

Example Sentences

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It resembles a space mission, with an intrepid rover traversing desolate distant terrain.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

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

In January, when the Eaton and Palisades fires broke out, the shop was desolate for around a month.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

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

From MarketWatch • Nov. 29, 2025

I studied the clouds’ dark shapes—flocks of lost sheep straying across a desolate wasteland, blown to rags and tatters by the wind.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn