desolate place

collocation in English

meaningsofdesolateandplace

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desolate
adjective
uk
/ˈdes.əl.ət/us
/ˈdes.əl.ət/
A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant ...
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place
noun
uk
/pleɪs/us
/pleɪs/
an area, town, ...
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(Definition ofdesolateandplacefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In my opinion it must be a mostdesolateplace.
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It is the mostdesolateplaceyou ever saw.
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Manghopir was adesolateplacethen; there he spent his days in prayer and seeking spiritual attainments.
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Ronika was adesolateplace, covered in desert and rock.
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He said that it was his guardian angel who had brought him to thisdesolateplace.
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These mountains and their neighboring ranges are adesolateplacewith little human habitation.
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They were both looking for adesolateplace, to avoid the crowds.
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Lodhran was adesolateplacebut a cultivatable, level tract of land.
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These gliding grounds are not in the vicinity of large towns, but usually in rather desolate places.
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For many people, inner-city areas and towns are empty, desolate places of despair.
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Many of them are in desolate places.
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Normally these tasks are being held at deserted buildings and desolate places.
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His characters are often reclusive, and stick to these desolate places.
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I have fellowship therein with them who lived in dens and desolate places in the earth, who through death obtained this resurrection and eternal holy life.
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