desolate

Do you remember the scene in which the mayor and his cronies take Dmitri to this desolate place and threaten him with a gun?

The ancient city presented a strange and desolate appearance on the succeeding morning, in the neighbourhood of the public square.

Sometimes, too, they were found in deep forests, and many travellers are supposed to find them in desolate mountain places.

He pictured his country ravaged, broken, desolate, buffeted like a shuttlecock between the rackets of fate.

And so she goes beyond the seas, leaving her parents as desolate as were Isaac and Rebecca of old.

He only knew that Binhart was dead, and that he himself was groping his way out into the night, a broken and desolate man.