How to Use desolation in a Sentence

desolation

noun

• She sank into a state of desolation and despair.
• Amid all this appearance of desolation, nothing struck my own eye more forcibly than the sight of this great road; the passage from New-York to Boston.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• But the family that runs the place is at home in the desolation.
  — Ashlea Halpern, WIRED, 24 May 2017
• But stare at the image long enough, and the desolation fades.
  — Danyel Smith, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Each tries to coax a few sprigs of joy and drops of purpose out of her desolation.
  — Vulture, 23 Nov. 2022
• The thrill—and the challenge—of this corner of Botswana’s Sua Pan is its desolation.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 18 June 2021
• In the high desert east of this border town, the rolling hills topped with mesquite and paloverde trees are a picture of rugged desolation.
  — Richard Marosi, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2018
• Advertisement For the rest, the scene as the Carpathia came up was one of desolation.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• The first turn of the bowtie comes at the city’s southern edge, where there’s more sand and more browns and more desolation, like a high that’s wearing off.
  — Nicholas Triolo, Outside Online, 21 Mar. 2023
• There’s the wilderness itself—the desolation of the ridges and the quiet under the cathedral pines.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 18 Dec. 2020
• All loss is akin to other loss; loss begets loss, and loss leads to desolation.
  — Cynthia Ozick, New York Times, 14 May 2018
• It’s that his desolation of Auburn football is the beginning of some dark age for the Tigers.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 11 Oct. 2022
• Cabimas’s desolation marks a swift downfall for a town that just a decade ago was one of the richest in Venezuela.
  — Isayen Herrera, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• But at the end of Ivana Franka Street, amid smashed cars and destroyed homes, there is an eerie desolation.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2022
• The views Homburg bragged about were of desert desolation.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• Eyes on eyes, the warm embrace that can soothe and comfort us in moments of both joy and desolation.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2021
• Ryan Reynolds went from joy to despair, and punch-the-air ecstasy to desolation.
  — Steve Douglas, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2023
• The track builds to a hard-rocking stomp and, later, a punky gallop, but throughout, the sense of desolation remains.
  — Hank Shteamer, SPIN, 24 Apr. 2023
• Tundra brings to mind desolation, but this region is in fact packed with life.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
• The zen-joy of a hike across some beautiful desolation.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
• Feral hogs are relieving us from the desolation of the world!
  — Marissa R. Moss, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• The memes that came out of the Tate arrest were priceless little gems scattered across the desolation of Elon Musk's Twitter.
  — WIRED, 2 Apr. 2023
• Amid the pain, shock and desolation in Bucha, one question emerges over and over — why the brutality from a people so close to Ukraine?
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2022
• When the Taliban last seized the capital, in 1996, Afghanistan was emerging from decades of desolation.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2021
• The swirling, giant storm, with its menacing eye, spoke of desolation to come.
  — Chantel Acevedo, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
• Despite the sense of desolation, life still abounds around the Titanic.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 4 Feb. 2022
• But there's no denying the essential sense of beauty and desolation in Sean Penn's filmic take on the story.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2018
• The desolation left by fame’s fickleness struck a deep chord.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• And with their final images, Hynes and O’Connor do justice to the play’s thrust towards desolation.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
• Her obsession with that sport, dating back to her early childhood in Minnesota, prompts some exciting opening action as Riley ricochets from desolation to triumph in the closing stretch of a game.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024