How to Use desolate in a Sentence

desolate

adjective

• The word that came to mind was desolate.
  — Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
• But now a desolate school year, long and full of needs not her own, yawned.
  — Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026
• His body was later found in a desolate area.
  — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Dec. 2025
• His body was later found in a desolate area.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 20 Jan. 2026
• His body was later found in a desolate area.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 28 Jan. 2026
• The game’s flow seemed desolate.
  — Aaron Heisen, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
• The trips on desolate, dusty roads could sometimes take hours.
  — Tod Leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• At first glance, the area looks desolate, hardly a place for a wildlife refuge.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2022
• The finished song is desolate but resilient, a hell of a plaint.
  — Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Spacious, yes, but the old one felt more desolate as a result.
  — Lydia Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 8 Jan. 2020
• The worker said the pilot swerved the plane to its crash site which is in a desolate area.
  — Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, CNN, 21 Feb. 2021
• Most dealers moved to desolate Chelsea, where rents were low.
  — Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2019
• Between each hole, the drive is stunning and desolate and serene.
  — Oliver Horovitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2017
• In the summer it had been packed with people out on the streets, by the fall is was desolate.
  — Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 27 June 2026
• The vast parking lot was desolate except for a small patch of cars, some with no air in their tires.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• Some 10 months later, the scene was still desolate.
  — Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
• The region is so flat and so desolate that the conveyor stands out, even from space.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• But as the flight continued, the fall colors gave way to a desolate sea of gray and black.
  — Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2020
• The scene is dark and desolate and suffused with an overwhelming sense of dread.
  — Jiji Lee, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2020
• Abby has not been found to this day -- not in the landfill, nor in the desolate mesas nearby.
  — Susan Mallie, CBS News, 12 May 2018
• On desolate rural strips or town squares, Mary is always the same.
  — Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
• But today the lands the Amur cuts through are desolate, endless and poor.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2021
• The world of ‘Pig’ is as desolate and cruel as ours, but smaller.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2021
• Her body was found a day later, miles away on a desolate, rocky beach in Oxnard.
  — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• The Chevrolet gasser blasted through salt air across a desolate stretch of land.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• For starters, no one would ever describe them as empty or desolate.
  — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2025
• Debris is scattered across the roads and a now-desolate parking lot.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2017
• The search begins at sunrise, with eight-and-a-half miles of desolate beach to cover.
  — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
• Her van was abandoned on a desolate road the teens used to walk back to town, authorities said.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
• An hour or so into the drive, the forests vanish and are replaced by desolate scrubland.
  — Michael Lewis, The Hive, 2 Aug. 2017