Yanni's restaurant was oddly desolate for lunch time.

Sometimes he was desolate and innocent, but sometimes gracious and flamboyant. I couldn't know his all sides yet.

Uprose the image of my father dear, / as there I see the monarch, bathed in blood, / like him in prowess and in age his peer. / Uprose Creusa, desolate and drear, / Iulus' peril, and a plundered home.

Layla lived in a remote and desolate part of Australia.

The town was desolate after the flood.

And may my almighty God make him favourable to you: and send back with you your brother, whom he keepeth, and this Benjamin: and as for me I shall be desolate without children.

It was a thoroughly desolate landscape, without a soul in sight.

I kept thinking, thinking of the pale, haggard, lonely little girl on the cold and desolate side of the window-pane.

Yanni lives in a remote, desolate area in southern Algeria.

Mars is a cold desolate planet.