Sentence examples for desolate tract from inspiring English sources
Next a desolate tract he has owned for years, home to an abandoned bowling alley, where he dreams of a sprawling supermarket, the kind with a coffee bar, sushi chef and gourmet takeout.
In that book, she ended with a lament for the loss of "wild time", and made a passing attack on the negative connotations of wilderness favoured by lexicographers; my dictionary gives "wild, uninhabited and uncultivated region", "desolate tract or area", "confused mass or collection".
New homes began, in the 1990s, to occupy what had previously been a desolate tract of sand, and prefabricated communities sprang up in earnest as the housing market heated up.
Abruptly, the wicked wilderness of the Chambal Sanctuary appears, with desolate tracts of scrubby alluvial plateaus criss-crossed by deep gullies and ravines.
Those concerns, she writes, were aggravated by the "aggressive posture of China's representative" five months ago at the council's observers' meeting in Sweden.An odd-looking effort by a Chinese developer to build an "eco-golf course" and luxury resort on a 300 square km tract in Iceland's desolate north-east corner also aroused suspicions about China's strategic intentions in the region.
It is uninhabited and, except for a tract of stunted birch forest, completely desolate.
Among the aging housing tracts, the prisons and the vast stretches of desolate desert, the ballpark is a rare place for entertainment.
Her expression became desolate.
