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.

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

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.

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

The town was desolate after the flood.

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

The public square is desolate.

Mars is a cold desolate planet.

Yanni's restaurant was oddly desolate for lunch time.

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