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Example sentences for: desolate

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This desolate national park was formed largely over the course of 16 cataclysmic months during 1730 and 1731.
The director, John Avildsen, keeps Stallone small in the frame, as dwarfed by his desolate environment as Chaplin's Little Tramp.
Inland from the urban jungle of L.A. lies the dry and desolate expanse of the Mojave Desert, a vast, empty landscape that stretches 200 miles (322 km) to the Nevada border.
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.
What if she had failed to write there not because she was desolate and dried up but because, for a few active years, she actually had a life?