Sentence examples for be desolate from inspiring English sources

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be desolate

verb

To deprive of inhabitants.

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"There would be good reason for people to be desolate and maybe despairing," Blumenthal said.

If I had to describe her pictures in a single word, it would be "desolate".

I wondered if he would still be there when I returned alone, late at night, when the station would be desolate, and started charting another route home.

But, if the glassy new Skidmore Owings & Merrill addition on the 11th Avenue side of John Jay College is any indication, it won't be desolate for long.

The region may not be "desolate", as a Tory peer so memorably misdescribed it, but venues can be a bit quiet on a week night.

So these kids get a double-whammy, asking themselves, 'Do they like me or do they just want to get invited to Gstaad?' " The flip side of parents staking their claim to Silicon Valley gold can be desolate.

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The floor is desolate.

I'm Desolate.

"I was desolate," he says.

Surroundings are desolate.

I was desolate.

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