Example sentences for: desolate

How can you use “desolate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Now, it helps to understand that there is no more desolate example of urban-renewing a place into the ground in all of Los Angeles than the once-charming Pershing Square.

  • 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.

  • But, like so many others, Warwick's faith in the business of getting poor and desolate people to shell out enormous amounts of money they really shouldn't be spending for worthless advice remained unshaken.

  • The landscape is alternately rich and arid, lush and desolate.

  • As an intriguing exercise in modern industrial archaeology, its desolate log cabins and colliery installations have become a coal mining village museum.


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