Sentence examples for were desolate from inspiring English sources

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were desolate

verb

To deprive of inhabitants.

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The cobblestone streets of the market were desolate the other night.

The younger members of the family were desolate when they heard this.

By contrast, the streets of SoHo and NoLIta were desolate; Fanelli Café and Mercer Kitchen were open but uncharacteristically mellow.

When I visited early this fall, the temples were filled with Japanese tour groups, and the killing fields were desolate.

The streets were desolate, prompting Italian anthropologist Amalia Signorelli to write: "The world had changed, the noisiest, most crowded and most chaotic city in Europe was deserted".

Some of Mr. Cornell's best older songs, like Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun," were desolate ballads, and Timbaland would never disdain a dramatically ascending chorus.

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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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