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• The scrubland I'd be crossing looked desolate, but at least it wasn't a desert.From the entry scrubland
• A hoping situation is not yet desolate.From the entry hoping
• We made landfall at the most god-forsaken, barren, desolate, and hellish location possible to image; and we were grateful, anything to get off that ship!From the entry landfall
• Roger's Death was a more intimate and a more desolating event than the death of Lytton.2017, Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf: A Biography, page cxl. From the entry desolating
• The department provided the example of officers parking in desolate areas to sleep.2015, Steven V. Gilbert, Barbara A. Gilbert, Police Corruption in the NYPD: From Knapp to Mollen, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN…. From the entry coop
• The formerly desolate eastern bank of the Taedonggang had become part of the city proper.1984 February 3 [1984 January 2], Mu Qing, “Three Trips to a Heroic Nation”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 024, Foreign…. From the entry Taedonggang
• Here we recognise the dreary, dank, desolate, overgrown, hemlocky complex at once.1969, John Jones, “To Ripen or to Wither?”, in John Keats’s Dream of Truth, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., →ISBN, section IV…. From the entry hemlocky
• And then, from unseen lips, a cruel and mocking peal of laughter rang through the desolate place.1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry ingress
• Then his whole life, desolate as a desert, loomed up before him with appalling distinctness.1913, E. Pauline Johnson, A Red Girl's Reasoning. From the entry hotelish
• Tradition ran that once on a time the whole world was desolated by a famine.1912, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 51. From the entry once on a time
• They made their way to a geological formation called Kap Kobenhavn, a series of bare hills as desolate as a moonscape.2022 December 7, Carl Zimmer, “Oldest Known DNA Offers Glimpse of a Once-Lush Arctic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry moonscape
• The interior courtyard was plain and desolate, with few places to hide, but he saw that there were two wells.2011, Bethesda, Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, scene: From the in-game book Thief. From the entry crenellation
• The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe- a desolate, dry planet with vast deserts.1984, 1:50 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), spoken by Princess Irulan, →OCLC. From the entry messiah
• Here lay a desolate valley—a shallow, narrow valley dotted with stunted trees and covered with many great bowlders.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 160. From the entry stunted
• 'The Azalea,' with its desolating contrast of perfumed warmth and chill solitude, touches even more consummately the actual reality of suffering.1908, The Quarterly Review, John Murray, pages 375-376. From the entry consummately
• "I am desolated to lose the pearls of wisdom that habitually fall from your cultivated lips," returned Haddo.1908, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 3, in The Magician. From the entry pearl of wisdom
• I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41. From the entry moonlighted
• As she gazed, an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot.1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics. From the entry unmirthful
• Angerer also documented the desolate banks of the winding Dâmbovița, the muddy rivulet that divided the Wallachian capital and flooded almost every spring.2013, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, “Romanian Architecture and Cityscape: The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Photographers”, in Micheline Nilsen…. From the entry Dâmbovița
• The city was desolate and joyless.2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry loudspeaker
• The country club where we coffee’d was hushed, even desolate on a rainy morning—the dark woods you would expect, the sweet selection of teas.2008, Rebecca Schoenkopf, Commie Girl in the OC, London; New York: Verso, →ISBN, pages 11–12. From the entry coffee
• Indeed, the infantry battle on the desolate ridgeline above Darwin would probably have seemed remarkably familiar to a World War I stormtrooper.1995, Ian Drury, German Stormtrooper 1914-18, Osprey Publishing, page 4. From the entry stormtrooper
• Sometimes it is called the desert whale because its winter mating and calving grounds lie along a desolate stretch of Mexico's Pacific shore.1971 Mar, National Geographic, page 396. From the entry desert whale
• The ruined walls of an ancient building, stark and grey, stood out grimly desolate against the heavy, storm-clouded sky of the west.[1926], Helen M. Fairley, chapter XXIII, in Kali’s Jewels, London: Hutchinson & Co. […], →OCLC, page 284. From the entry storm-clouded
• The southern margin is marked by sand-buried cities, now desolate but formerly the site of extensive settlements which were connected by a road from Yarkand through Khotan to Ansichow.1934, George Babcock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 268. From the entry Ansichow
• Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 174, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC. From the entry ghastful
• I have said that the fury of the rushing blast was infernal — cacodaemoniacal — and that its voices were hideous with the pent-up viciousness of desolate eternities.1921, HP Lovecraft, The Nameless City. From the entry cacodaemoniacal

Meaning of desolate

1. adjective Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
2. adjective Barren and lifeless.
3. adjective Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc.

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How do you use desolate in a sentence?

Desolate is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.”

What is a short sentence with desolate?

“The city was desolate and joyless.”

What does desolate mean?

Desolate means deserted and devoid of inhabitants.