desolation
Example Sentences
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He travels from one scene of desolation to another.
From BBC
The route through the nuclear production complex took me on what I imagined my father’s trip to work at the area had been, through a desolation that held its own beauty.
From Seattle Times
The commander of Ukraine's land forces posted a video purporting to show the capture of Andriivka amid a landscape of scorched territory and desolation.
From Reuters
A fusillade of calcium batteries and white plastic bags drifted above the landscape along with birds and the final image was a dove soaring above the desolation.
From Seattle Times
The land around Biosphere 2 could be described the same way Buzz Aldrin talked about the moon: “magnificent desolation.”
From Scientific American
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
