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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a desolate location" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a place that is barren, empty, or lacking in life and activity.
Example: "The explorers found themselves in a desolate location, far from civilization and surrounded by nothing but barren land."
Alternatives: "an isolated area" or "a barren site".
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Now that you realize you're in a foreign country in a desolate location, what do you do?
It's easy enough, in fact, to imagine the sort of scenarios that might lend themselves to such an act: a ticking time bomb, a killer believed to have anthrax and on the loose, a suspected dirty-bomb maker in a desolate location, terrorists with a bus full of children on a mountain top.
It isn't terribly unusual for a city to have been established in a desolate location by sheer willpower – this more or less describes Las Vegas, as well as what it's like to write a book – but it is unusual for a city to have actually been named after a novel, as Tel Aviv gets its name from Theodor Herzl (it's the Hebrew title of his Altneuland, "Old New Land").
But there are occurrences when extreme weather events and extreme impacts are not related such as when a mild storm leads to floods that affect critical infrastructure [53]; or when a tropical cyclone makes landfall in a desolate location.
His photographs exude the chill of standing alone in a desolate location.
But right now, in my mind, as I end my picturesque vacation, home sounds like a desolate location where there's no AC, no one making my bed, and I have to put clothes on over my bathing suit.
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Anyone who has sat in lazy contentment in the lush and leafy 'secret' garden at the northernmost extent of Central Park, a once desolate location where unsuspecting visitors were routinely robbed, knows that a book about Lynden Breed Miller's vital work is long overdue.
We assessed the performance of our first virtual guidance module with novice ultrasound operators by performing targeted cardiac ultrasound examination in a remote desolate location in the high Canadian Arctic.
The name of the film (in Arabic Eun al haramieh) refers to a rather desolate location on the valley between Nablus and Ramallah.
A plate image in the book shows a desolate empty location, and he laments the mutilated statues on the road from the village of Selçuk.
The show sends 15 people into a desolate, underdeveloped location for a year where they must create their own civilization from scratch — and of course, everyone is at a risk of getting voted out and being replaced by new citizens.
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