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.

If one does not have a hobby, his life may be desolate.

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 echoed desolate.

Mary's explanations enchanted me and desolated me all at once.

The house was feeling desolate.

I can't bear the chill of seeing everybody happy, and knowing myself so lonely and desolate.

Layla lived in a remote and desolate part of Australia.

The town was desolate after the flood.

Sami marched for days in the desolate cold.