All 11 Uses
desolate
in
Travels with Charley
(Edited)
- It's just a very lonely, helpless feeling at first—a kind of desolate feeling.
Part 1 *desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- And I confess to a feeling of gray desolation.
Part 2desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages a sick sense of failure falls on me and I know I can never do it.
Part 2desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- A desolate loneliness settled on me—almost frightening loneliness.
Part 2
- I succumbed utterly to my desolation, made two peanut-butter sandwiches, and went to bed and wrote long letters home, passing my loneliness around.
Part 2desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- I opened more beer. After the night of desolate loneliness I felt very good to be surrounded by warm and friendly but cautious people.
Part 2desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
- The then little town where I was born, which within my grandfather's memory was a blacksmith shop in a swamp,, recalls with yearly pageantry a glowing past of Spanish dons and rose-eating senoritas who have in public memory wiped out the small, desolate tribe of grub— and grasshopper-eating Indians who were our true first settlers.
Part 2
- Such a place the Fallen Angels might have built as a spite to Heaven, dry and sharp, desolate and dangerous, and for me filled with foreboding.
Part 3 *desolate = empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
- The old port with narrow streets and cobbled surfaces, smoke-grimed, goes into a period of desolation inhabited at night by the vague ruins of men, the lotus eaters who struggle daily toward unconsciousness by way of raw alcohol.
Part 3desolation = a feeling of extreme sadness or misery--often with loneliness
- For the inhabitants of the desert are well trained and well armed against desolation.
Part 3desolation = a state of emptiness that provides no shelter or sustenance
- My bed was unmade and breakfast dishes lay desolate in the sink.
Part 3desolate = sad or miserable--and often lonely
Definitions:
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(1)
(desolate as in: felt desolate) sad or miserable--and often lonely
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(2)
(desolate as in: a desolate place) empty, providing no shelter or sustenance
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(3)
(desolate as in: desolated the region) destroyed; or emptied of people; or emptied of most plants and animals
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)