How to Use "desolate" with Example Sentences

1. Her house stood at the end of a desolate street .

2. Dust storms are not a new phenomenon - this image , from 1955 , shows a huge dust storm raging over a desolate texas farm .

3. About 1300 residents of qingshan township have been moved to xiangbei farm , desolate land where a prison once stood .

4. Today , it 's a desolate , crumbling rock in the middle of the east china sea , battered by hurricanes so severe it 's impossible to land on the island most days of the year .

5. Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love , her heart is like some fortress that has been captured , and sacked , and abandoned , and left desolate .