It echoed desolate.

Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.

The house was feeling desolate.

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.

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

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

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

The public square is desolate.

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

Layla lived in a remote and desolate part of Australia.