desolate

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: The position on 5/11 was an utterly desolate desert, many miles from any obvious water or habitation.
• rather: The finish was at this rather desolate pub in the middle of nowhere again.
• so: What can have made so desolate What was last night so very fair?
• very: How very desolate must that one be, Whose more than grave has not a memory!
• now: Gathering together a reconnaissance team, MacReady investigates the now desolate Norwegian camp to ascertain the source of their madness.
• not: The feeling is not desolate, but promises impending revelation.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• lay: Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
• make: This will make many peole desolate and depressed at a time they need to see their loved ones daily.

Modifies a noun

• wasteland: Then it became a desolate wasteland except for some grazing sheep.
• moor: On a desolate moor, lies Falcon's Keep.
• wilderness: On the other side an equally desolate wilderness is bounded only by the distant Red Sea.
• moorland: Once on top of the hills, the road crosses desolate moorland at a height of about 1,500ft.
• landscape: The Festival was sited on the desolate landscape of the former Princes Dock, Govan on the south bank of the Clyde.
• valley: Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Used with adjective complement

• lie: Because of My house which lies desolate while each of you runs to his own house.
• lay: In an incredibly short time the circle of flourishing cities was destroyed or laid desolate.
• feel: He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me.
• leave: Babylon will be left desolate without a single inhabitant.
• become: The temple is torn down, the city becomes desolate, the Messiah comes in His glory.
• look: Wilson said kindly: " Why, my boy, you look desolate.