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Example sentences for: desolate

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The director, John Avildsen, keeps Stallone small in the frame, as dwarfed by his desolate environment as Chaplin's Little Tramp.
The art industry is also responsible for resuscitating--some would say gentrifying--some of New York's most desolate neighborhoods, including SoHo, TriBeCa, the meatpacking district, and the DUMBO section of Brooklyn.
The landscape is alternately rich and arid, lush and desolate.
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.