'desolate wind' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a wind that has an atmosphere of emptiness or desolation. For example, "The desolate wind howled through the abandoned streets of the ghost town."
Hartland is a desolate, wind-swept place but the surf, granite cliffs and rock-pooling are unparalleled.
Pope John Paul II today visited a desolate wind-swept plain here near the Jordan River, on the bank of a tributary where Jordan says Jesus was baptized.
The eerie first section of "Chang-Music" begins with the musicians playing in the highest register, producing a desolate, wind-swept sound.
SALKHIT, MONGOLIA — On a desolate, wind-raked hilltop not far from the Mongolian capital, white-helmeted workers were busily lifting, tugging and erecting 80-meter poles and fitting them with enormous pinwheel-like turbines in Mongolia's first foray into wind-generated power.
Somewhere in half-sleep, with the television on because I feel desolate with the wind blowing outside and the sea mist clotting the streets, I realize that the silent twins' story has upset all my expectations.
The Thrifty Spinner Golden Gate Park was built in the late 1800s on the Great Sand Bank, a desolate area of wind-swept dunes where few plants survived.
Directed and written by the young Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara, this fine first feature takes place on a desolate stretch of wind-swept coast far from the big city and much of anything else that might evoke the modern world.
The town was perfect to put TeleNav's power to the test, with desolate roads and winding paths, it would be easy for anyone with no familiarity to find themselves turned around out there.
It felt desolate but peaceful, the wind was blowing and it was very quiet except for the insects buzzing or chirping.
The highway, a faded strip of blacktop that connects a series of barrier beaches, is desolate in wintertime, a wind-swept landscape of sand dunes, the Atlantic Ocean and ice-covered marshland.
