The phrase "a desolate section of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an area that is barren, empty, or lacking in life or activity.
Example: "The hikers found themselves lost in a desolate section of the forest, where no signs of wildlife could be seen."
Alternatives: "an abandoned part of" or "a bleak area of".
Days after their visit to the Academy Awards, two child stars of "Slumdog Millionaire" have learned they will be moved from a desolate section of Mumbai to new government housing, BBC News reported.
It's a tiny, state-of-the-art theatre in a long, narrow building in a desolate section of the far West Fifties, and it's strangely sophisticated for a scrappy performance space.
Two women were robbed at gunpoint early yesterday in Queens by a man who forced them to drive to a desolate section of Kennedy International Airport, take off their clothes and turn over their cash, jewelry and sport utility vehicle, the police said.
There are so many places, so many caves in the mountain he could hide in," said Brenda Earl, a warden at St . Johns in the Wilderness, a 19th-century church in a desolate section of the park.
The station occupies a sometimes desolate section of the Bronx, with a strip of pizza shops and stores on one side and a dark pathway to Boston Road, past auto shops and an overgrown lot, on another.
Twitter will be the first recipient of this largess when it moves into new offices in the Furniture Mart on a particularly desolate section of Market Street next year.
Twitter will be the first to take advantage of the program when it moves into new offices on a particularly desolate section of Market Street next year.
But the Russian Revolution in 1917 cut off part of that route, and when the Chinese closed their border after the revolution in 1949, some Kyrgyz were trapped in this desolate section of Afghanistan.
With Starkey's help, Mulder canvases abandoned buildings in a desolate part of town.
Last year I was in a desolate part of Hunts Point, wandering with my camera.
There in late 1876, "he took up his career once again in one of the most isolated and desolate sections of the Pacific Coast".
