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Example sentences for: desolate

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You know, in English novels people and large hounds are always chasing about on desolate moors, amid gorse and bracken.
For a view of Newfoundland at its wildest and most magnificently desolate, drive beyond Marine Drive on the gravel road leading to Cape St. Francis.
This desolate national park was formed largely over the course of 16 cataclysmic months during 1730 and 1731.
Last year it instructed us to start calling a desolate stretch on the West Side TunJav (the area is between the Lincoln Tunnel and the Jacob Javitz convention center).
The drier Thompson valley soon takes on a more rugged aspect than the Fraser, with the sagebrush and lizards of a semi-desert, in places as beautifully desolate as a moonscape.