quite desolate
Frequency: 6.58.1 per million words
To emphasize the emptiness of a place.
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- 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.