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Example sentences for: desolate

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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.
Of even the most desolate stragglers
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.
The director, John Avildsen, keeps Stallone small in the frame, as dwarfed by his desolate environment as Chaplin's Little Tramp.
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.