desolate

In a sentence

Six example sentences with desolate, each labelled with its topic.

• The road crossed a desolate plateau where we saw no water, no trees, and no village for eight hours.

  Travel

• Decades of salt spray left the headland desolate, unable to support even the hardy grasses that once held the dunes.

  Environment

• He shoots desolate salt flats at noon, where nothing grows and the only shade for miles is his own truck.

  Photography

• The novel opens on a desolate moor where the wind finds nothing to stop it and the hero finds nothing to eat.

  Literature

• The rover's cameras show a desolate plain of rock and dust, with no water, no shade, and no sign that anything ever grew.

  Science

• The final map is a desolate salt flat with no cover and no supply crates, so players must carry everything in.

  Gaming

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