quite desolate

Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words

To emphasize the emptiness of a place.

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Examples (10)

  • The moor looked quite desolate under the grey sky.
  • After the factory closed, the town became quite desolate.
  • The abandoned playground seemed quite desolate in the winter twilight.
  • We drove for miles through a landscape that was quite desolate and empty.
  • At midnight, the usually busy city streets were quite desolate.
  • The old industrial park felt quite desolate with all its empty warehouses.
  • Even in summer, the rocky coastline can appear quite desolate.
  • The vast, windswept tundra is a quite desolate expanse.
  • The remote mountain cabin, surrounded by nothing but rock and sky, was a quite desolate spot.
  • The region, once thriving, is now quite desolate following years of drought.