(n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
(n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.
(n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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.
Forsaken
Definition:
(p. p.) of Forsake
Example Sentences:
(1) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
(2) Chlamydia is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that severely challenges the patience and creativity of all its investigators--even to the point that some investigators have forsaken this field for more productive and fertile areas of research.
(3) They removed dictators, they gave ordinary men and women a voice, and perhaps most important of all, they put the problems of an oppressed, forsaken people on the global political agenda – people just like those who, before Wednesday's ceasefire, were being killed and maimed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza.
(4) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(5) What must have made matters worse is the absence of any discernible indication that Dyke has forsaken his former profession.
(6) But the judge warned that he would be released only when he was no longer a danger to the public and had forsaken his radical views.
(7) The real effect will [come] this summer when it’s clear they have no income.” Back on Ray Pool’s forsaken farm, this realisation is beginning to sink in.
(8) We returned to Israel so that Jewish blood may not be forsaken...
(9) "To the people of Haiti, we say clearly and with conviction, you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten," he said.
(10) Why has God forsaken us, and allowed others to reach the moon?” And now Turkey stands tall, a voice unto the nations (and Tayyip Erdoğan, from his training on the soccer pitch and a religious school, indeed has a voice, part uplift-sermon, part referee-harangue, though its rhetorical effect does not translate).
(11) The Interrogators and the guards always hinted at the “God-forsaken nowhere” I was in, but I ignored them completely, and when the guards asked me “Where do you think you are?” I just responded, “I’m not sure, but I am not worried about it; since I am far from my family, it doesn’t really matter to me where I am.” And so I always closed the door whenever they referred to the place.
(12) We are so frustrated that the leader of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn , seems to have forsaken the principle of international solidarity,” he said.
(13) "I sacrificed my job and now my reputation and the Egyptian media has forsaken me, there was some support before and now that is gone.
(14) As for rubbing shoulders with dictators, Ilyumzhinov does have a talent for turning up in countries most public figures have long since forsaken.
(15) Now the universities are committed only to showing that they're trying awfully hard to recruit the working classes; targets have been forsaken, and the universities will publish their provisional top-up fees this year in anticipation of - not waiting on - Harris approving them.
(16) Our study showed that for these unstable fractures, fixation with an angled plate or Ender nails should be forsaken.
(17) It was their third successive league defeat, for the first time in the Roman Abramovich era, and though the owner will never divulge his thoughts publicly it must be startling for everyone connected with the club that we are only in Bonfire Night week and Mourinho has already forsaken his record of having never lost seven times in a single season.
(18) As the power struggle rages, the people of Turkey feel betrayed and forsaken.
(19) "The international fight against Aids cannot succeed if local partners are forsaken when the political winds shift," the letter adds.
(20) We must ensure that, as online marketplaces revolutionise the way we live, laws designed to promote safety and quality-of-life are not forsaken under the pretext of innovation.” The attorney general’s report lays out an argument for why some of the site’s top hosts are gentrifying New York neighbourhoods, running illegal hotels, potentially avoiding millions in taxes and disturbing residential buildings.