(a.) Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
(a.) Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars.
(a.) Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless.
(a.) Lost to shame; dissolute.
(a.) Destitute of; lacking in.
(v. t.) To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood.
(v. t.) To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city.
Example Sentences:
(1) Downtown LA is improving, but for years it was a desolate hell zone of freeways, office blocks and closed stores.
(2) The coast here feels like an island, desolate and full of surprises.
(3) The Eritrean government requires every pupil to complete their final year of high school by serving in Sawa Military Camp, in the desolate, semi-desert region of eastern Eritrea .
(4) But for the next few hours, though, there's little to excite us: Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) The economic data calendar is a desolate wasteland of nothingness.
(5) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(6) They are kept in a small pen behind the Lion's Den, a pub on a ranch in desolate countryside 75 miles south of Johannesburg.
(7) It was after the Indian wars of the 1870s that the indigenous tribes started to be consigned to reservations – on the worst, most desolate lands for grazing or growing crops.
(8) And, Jinkyo-En which was a desolate waste has come to an oasis in life for the Hansenites.
(9) The first time I saw the building - a stark, unapologetically angular silver bunker throwing back the heat of a rather desolate part of Berlin - I was content to register its disturbance without question, submitting to its strategies of oppression and disorientation as a child would.
(10) "Given the complexity of this crisis and the extent of the distress of our people from the north … we must together, I say together, clear the path ahead to free our country from these invaders, who only leave desolation, deprivation and pain in their wake."
(11) And it's Christmas bonanza time along the high streets of Britain, where Oxfam outlets and estate agents lie lonely amid empty sites and desolate closed doors.
(12) Australian visual effects wizard Dave Clayton has been nominated for his work on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
(13) But, like many streets in New York City and in cities across the US, it is becoming increasingly desolate.
(14) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(15) Instead, they suggest expanding the scope of services in family planning clinics, out of an awareness that the continuing high prevalence of unintended childbearing, among the young and disadvantaged in particular, is part of a larger problem of living in a desolate social environment.
(16) "I watched this guy brushing off dirt from a skull in the most desolate landscape and right then I just knew," Rincón said of his first encounter with palaeontology.
(17) There was nothing to see for miles but sage-covered high desert, a landscape of stark beauty and eerie desolation.
(18) The contemporary state of the sub-discipline of endocrinology within the framework of internal medicine is generally considered rather desolate, but so far actual data were lacking.
(19) Howell said in July: "There are large uninhabited and desolate areas, certainly up in the north-east where there's plenty of room for fracking well away from anyone's residence where it can be conducted without any kind of threat to the rural environment."
(20) A subroutine called DESOL for the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations of the type arising in biological simulation problems is described.
Marooned
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Maroon
Example Sentences:
(1) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(2) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
(3) Nominees: Sticks and Stones, Maroon Productions for Channel 4 Charlie and Lola "I am not sleepy and I will not go to bed", Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Children's Breakthrough Award - Behind the Screen Jonathan Smith - Make Me Normal, Century Films for Channel 4 "The jury said that this year's winner had directed a moving and inspiring documentary which forced the audience to consider the impact of autism and Aspergers syndrome and how it can impact on the lives of those it affects."
(4) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(5) The commemoration began when the clock on the neo-gothic Town Hall struck 12, and a maroon was fired from the roof.
(6) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(7) Guardian US environment correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg looked at the role cities would have to play in reducing emissions: At-risk cities hold solutions to climate change: UN report It is already taking shape as the 21st century urban nightmare: a big storm hits a city like Shanghai, Mumbai, Miami or New York, knocking out power supply and waste treatment plants, washing out entire neighbourhoods and marooning the survivors in a toxic and foul-smelling swamp.
(8) Mutants of the maroon-like complex, representative of the five known complementation classes, were subjected to fine structure mapping experiments utilizing a nutritional selective procedure which permits the survival of rare ma-l(+) progeny from large-scale crosses.
(9) The amount of retrodisplacement was greatest with Kennerdell-Maroon or four-wall decompression and the least with lateral wall decompression.
(10) Plus her parents recently moved back to Carlisle from Harrogate, and will be able to help with childcare if she ends up marooned in Westminster during the week.
(11) "He had a strange life, marooned inside communist East Germany in his west Berlin apartment just a stone's throw from where his hero Christopher Isherwood had once lived, and surrounded by expressionist art, bars and other musicians and artists," says Tobias Rüther, author of Heroes: David Bowie and Berlin .
(12) Dan Barron blames this result on the maroon jerseys, while Greg Phillips nominates the theme to Ronnie Corbett vehicle Sorry as the perfect Hazlehurst soundtrack for this shambles.
(13) Layali has spent her entire life marooned on this colonial holdover, which is not equipped for refugees.
(14) The King Jacob stopped 100 metres from the marooned boat, whose captain – believed to be a Tunisian – manoeuvred clumsily in the dark, ramming the Portuguese boat.
(15) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).
(16) Neutrophils stained dark maroon and contained green granules, eosinophils contained bright blue granules, basophils revealed yellow and pink granules, and monocytes stained green with green and yellow vacuoles.
(17) Parents are no longer marooned at home, waiting for cultural news to reach them several weeks later.
(18) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
(19) Parents risk being taken in by someone's promises, only to find their children suddenly marooned.
(20) Snowden has since fled Hong Kong for Moscow, where he is reportedly marooned while resisting US attempts to extradite him to face charges under the Espionage Act.