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Meanings of desolate place in English

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Usage of desolate place in English
1
Peter hated to leave the women and children in this desolate place.
Judith of the Plains
2
Such impressive commitment has flowered out of a desolate place inside him.
The Guardian
3
It is pleasant to find a kindred spirit in this desolate place.
The Jungle Girl
4
A restaurant would not pay in such a stony, forbidding, desolate place.
The Innocents Abroad
5
Then Shell-crest said to his mother: Mother, return from this desolate place.
Twenty-Two Goblins
6
What a poor desolate place in which to leave one's loved ones.
Sweetapple Cove
7
Of course they are bad enough in an old desolate place like this.
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
8
The precious potion bestrewed the ground, making a garden of that desolate place.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
9
She thought it the most desolate place she had ever seen.
The Obstacle Race
10
This cemetery is the most desolate place the mind of man can conceive.
Travels in Morocco, Volume 1.
11
Had he been drawing glamour from me, in that desolate place?
The iron king
12
The island on which we stood was a wild, desolate place.
Old Jack
13
Reaching a certain wild and desolate place, Masni made a signal of caution.
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes
14
She dreamed that she was walking in a dark, desolate place.
Winter door
15
I was acutely aware that the marina was a desolate place at this hour.
Fear nothing
16
Neither seemed likely to be found in this desolate place.
The city in the lake
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Desolate place through the time
Desolate place across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common