“Those events that desolate the earth have faded from the memory of Time.”

“It would desolate me to have a spirit so brightsome depart prematurely.”

“Oh dear me, it desolates me to inform you that I will not be able to update either of my stories for about ten days.”

“The grain aphis, in certain years, desolates our wheat fields.”

“The very image of the desolated metropolis was enough to dishearten me before I even entered the city itself.”

“Medication suppressed the cancroid growth if its dose contained 15 millions of desolated trypanosomes.”

“The Rajputs fought back, during which groups of people were displaced or forced to move out of desolated areas.”

“Richter's subsequent inventions, in many styles and mediums, project calmly desolating ironies so vast that they feel atmospheric.”

“That emerges in the desolating blow-by-blow collapse of these once-blessed children into the killing-grounds of the First World War.”

“Henry Dunant, a young Swiss man, was confronted with the desolating scenes of an endless procession of carts carrying thousands of wounded.”