All 5 Uses of
desolate
in
Arrowsmith
- He gave up the double room at the front of his boarding-house for a hall-room at the rear, and in that narrow den he sat and mourned in a desolation of loneliness.†
Chpt 8
- During his first obstetrical case, when the student with him was merely nervous as they fidgeted by the bed in the hard desolation of the hospital room, Fatty was terrified, and he longed as he had never longed for anything in his flabby yet wistful life to comfort this gray-faced, straining, unknown woman, to take her pains on himself.†
Chpt 10
- To Crynssen County, Leopolis with its four thousand people was a metropolis, but in the pinched stillness of the dawn it was a tiny graveyard: Main Street a sandy expanse, the low shops desolate as huts.†
Chpt 15
- He went home desolately ascetic, and longed for Orchid all the night.†
Chpt 21 *
- He began to work out the formula of production—and he was desolate.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely