"desolate house" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a house that is empty, abandoned, or in a state of ruin. Example: As she walked the deserted streets, she couldn't help but notice the desolate houses that lined the road, their once vibrant colors now faded and their windows shattered.
There were criticisms about the transient nature of this contact, just as there were those who said that a colourful bit of art was only a cosmetic on the ugly face of a bleak shopping arcade or desolate housing estate.
In one story, "The Black Coat," a girl hitches a ride on a cold night, disembarks at a desolate housing project and meets a strange woman who teaches her how to strike matches that may take her out of a nightmarish life — a life she may already have left.
Mr Najib chose a desolate housing estate on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, still surrounded by bits of tropical forest.
The desolate public housing projects, the hopeless, idle young men crashing against one another - these reminded me of the embittered town we'd grown up in.
The camera darts outside to the desolate frame houses scattered around the landscape, and to the young people who, in Benjamin's words, "go to jail early and whose parents use inhalants", working on their go-karts outside.
The camera frequently darts outside to the desolate frame houses scattered at what look like random angles around the landscape, and to the young people, "who go to jail early and whose parents use inhalants," in Benjamin's words, as they work on their Go Karts outside his window.
Empty luxury apartments and hotels, desolate guest houses, deserted local diners... even the slopes were dead.
Deptford's northern section nearest the old docks contains areas of desolate council housing and deprivation typical of inner city poverty, though the area, along with neighbouring New Cross, has been touted as "the new Shoreditch" by some journalists and estate agents paying attention to a trendy arts and music scene that is popular with students and artists.
But there are still vast swaths of Detroit, once populated by the working middle class, black and white, that are largely abandoned and desolate, the houses gone or in disrepair, the jobs long gone, and until that seemingly intractable problem is dealt with, Detroit can never have a true renaissance.
