It was like all mountain funerals, but for an air of desolateness even deeper than usual.
The desolateness of the scene was heightened by listening to George relate his tales of storm and disaster while homeward bound on the U.
The crumbling moss-grown stones of the fences over which poison vines were clambering and the myriads of wild carrot, chicory, and ox-eye daisies added to the desolateness of the scene.
My first feeling of desolateness was scarcely heightened by the reflection, that I was once more cast upon the world without refuge or means of subsistence.
The plain looked bleak and barren, and the cold which our travellers now felt added to the desolateness of the scene.
In an instant the utter desolateness of their situation--forgotten in the first joy of their meeting--forced itself with appalling vividness upon Antonina's mind.
There was nothing remarkable about the house, save the extremedesolateness of its appearance, which seemed to arise partly from its isolated position, and partly from the unusual absence of all decoration on its external front.
Did no ray of her native light steal forth after her into the desolateness of the world?
If there was silence and desolateness outside, there was within the deserted place a stillness like the unresponse of death.
The man who lived alone in the midst of stately desolateness and held as his chief intimate a high-bred and gentle-minded scholar of ripe years, gave, in doing this, certain evidence which did not tell against him.
Doubtless the Orkneys or Hebrides equal these islands in desolateness and wildness of aspect, but they could scarce surpass them.
Perhaps he, too, felt something of the desolateness without and perhaps he, too, longed for some human companionship.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desolateness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: agony; desolation; emptiness; heartbreak; opening; sorrow; torment; torture; vacancy; vacuity
