Desolate has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The town was desolate after the flood. | |
| 2. | If one does not have a hobby, his life may be desolate. | |
| 3. | It echoed desolate. | |
| 4. | It was a thoroughly desolate landscape, without a soul in sight. | |
| 5. | I can't bear the chill of seeing everybody happy, and knowing myself so lonely and desolate. | |
| 6. | I kept thinking, thinking of the pale, haggard, lonely little girl on the cold and desolate side of the window-pane. | |
| 7. | Layla lived in a remote and desolate part of Australia. | |
| 8. | The house was feeling desolate. | |
| 9. | Sometimes he was desolate and innocent, but sometimes gracious and flamboyant. I couldn't know his all sides yet. | |
| 10. | Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out. It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky. |