feel desolate

Frequency: 7.814.5 per million words

Used to describe a person's internal feeling of great unhappiness and loneliness.

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Examples (10)

  • After his family moved away, he began to feel desolate in the empty house.
  • She felt utterly desolate when she heard the news of her friend's departure.
  • Wandering through the silent city, the lone survivor felt completely desolate.
  • I sometimes feel desolate during the long, dark winter months.
  • The character in the novel feels desolate and abandoned by society.
  • He felt so desolate that he couldn't even bring himself to speak.
  • Losing the championship game made the entire team feel desolate.
  • If you stay isolated for too long, you might start to feel desolate.
  • Despite being surrounded by people, she felt profoundly desolate.
  • The old man felt desolate after his wife of fifty years passed away.