desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
desolated
Example Sentences
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Hospital director Dr Muhammad Abu Salima has called on the WHO and the UN to help the medical teams and patients "leave this desolated place".
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2023
At the same time, Wallerstein could offer a mild reassurance: "It would certainly not be great, but it is not necessarily the desolated moonscape that people sometimes imagine it would be."
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2022
Even in the depths of the pandemic — even when the world locked down, leaving billions isolated and desolated — there were those who danced.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2021
Everywhere in this desolated settlement, the forest, whose decline the episode had just detailed, is reclaiming its space.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2019
Still—I was desolated when he climbed away and headed back west.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
