The phrase "a desolate strip of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a barren or empty area, often in a geographical or metaphorical context.
Example: "As we drove through the countryside, we passed a desolate strip of land that seemed untouched by civilization."
Alternatives: "an empty stretch of" or "a barren stretch of".
City and state officials said yesterday that they had agreed on a plan to transform a desolate strip of waterfront land in Harlem into a recreational area.
The abundance of churches in Wakefield is not limited to this block, which sits opposite a desolate strip of auto body shops.
Bar Bambino (1) was a neighborhood pioneer, opening two years ago on a desolate strip of 16th Street (2931 16th Street; 415-701-8466; barbambino.com; entrees $12.50 to $24).
To qualify for the payment, which the social networking company started offering in the past 12 months, according to current and former Facebook workers, employees must buy or rent a home within 10 miles (16km) of the Facebook campus at One Hacker Way, a desolate strip of road overlooking a marsh about 30 miles (48km) south of San Francisco.
TEN years ago, when a Bay Ridge businessman named Emmanuel Maropakis bought a former metal fabrication factory on a desolate strip of Third Avenue at Sixth Street in Gowanus, he thought he could make a few dollars renting the place out for storage.
(The film makers go along with the jokey comparison, showing a film clip of a desolate strip of Orchard Beach, compared with vibrant scenes of Brooklyn. Here, the Polo Grounds cannot look any uglier and Ebbets Field never looked more inviting).
But now, federal authorities say they suspect that the men were buried in the same vacant lot on a marshy, desolate strip of the Brooklyn-Queens border.
Monty Bar has the advantage of not being totally "discovered" yet, mostly because it's nestled between Downtown and Westlake/MacArthur Park on a fairly desolate strip of 7th Street.
On Coles Levee Road, a desolate strip owned by Los Angeles County, which uses part of it as a sewage dump, she found the fungus nearly every time she looked.
Within minutes of the explosions, American soldiers and Iraqi police officers with searchlights began combing the desolate strip of land along the eastern side of the Tigris River near the Sheraton Hotel.
While you're sniffing out the ever-growing art scene, hop over to the desolate strip north of the Berlin Hauptbahnhof train station where the Haunch of Venison just opened a gargantuan outpost (Heidestrasse 46; 49-30-3974-3963; www.haunchofvenison.com).haunchofvenison.com
