How to use "desolate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "desolate" in popular movie and book plots

  • Bluto sails to Scab Island, a desolate island in the middle of the ocean, while Pappy argues with his son and rants about children ("Kids").  - Popeye (1980 film)
  • With the death of his beloved wife and brother, Dr Ram becomes desolate and alcoholic.  - Mrityudata
  • The ship is now in a desolate void of nothingness.  - The Immunity Syndrome (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • Charlie Brown is accidentally left behind by the bus while at a desolate rest stop.  - Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
  • The desolate Orlando returns to writing The Oak Tree, a long poem started and abandoned in his youth.  - Orlando: A Biography
  • Shandalar forciblly teleports the party to a desolate Ice Island, ordering the player to retrieve his cloak for him at the island.  - Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
  • The next morning the scientists, clad in aviation oxygen masks due to the low pressure, begin exploring the desolate surface.  - Rocketship X-M
  • Next, Kiyomori imprisons Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa in the desolate Seinan palace (1179).  - The Tale of the Heike
  • Sykes pursues and corners Harcourt onto a desolate drawbridge.  - Alien Nation (film)
  • In 1860, during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, a rōnin (masterless samurai) wanders through a desolate Japanese countryside.  - Yojimbo (film)
  • In reality, Cera is left alone and desolate in the trenches, still immobilized by the mine.  - No Man's Land (2001 film)
  • There is the lush and green Palma, the arid and barren Motavia, and finally, the icy and desolate Dezoris.  - Phantasy Star (video game)
  • Upon reaching London he finds it desolate and empty.  - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds
  • On a desolate stretch of highway, Kevin decides to begin hitchhiking.  - The Wonder Years
  • They then find themselves in a desolate abandoned city of the ancient world of Charn.  - The Magician's Nephew
  • Setting out again, Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates and he is marooned close to a desolate rocky island near India.  - Gulliver's Travels

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