Synonyms

1. depopulate

Sentence Examples

1. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror but when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
2. Living with a cold man like Derik in a large, desolate place, having my every move dictated and scrutinized, has only made me feel emptier through the years.
3. All in the immediate vicinity of the ship is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the universe.
4. No law touches that desolate little strip of land.
5. It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.
6. Indeed, to say the truth, what little of its former self may then remain, will be found in so desolate and ruinous a state that the patriarch shall have removed his residence to Damascus.
7. It was at length arranged that we should live together during my stay in the city and as my worldly circumstances were somewhat less embarrassed than his own, I was permitted to be at the expense of renting, and furnishing in a style which suited the rather fantastic gloom of our common temper, a time-eaten and grotesque mansion, long deserted through superstitions into which we did not inquire, and tottering to its fall in a retired and desolate portion of the Faubourg St.
8. The boys remained silent and desolate, hands clasped tightly.
9. With a nod, she threw the bike into gear and took off over the desolate landscape.
10. Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while, so we sat down but there were very few people there, and it was sad-looking and desolate to see so many empty chairs.