Adjective : a treeless, desolate landscape. ,a desolate place. ,desolate prospects.    From Dictionary.com. 

China tested its nuclear in desolated region in Xinjiang and France did the same in a no man island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices in English » Chinese people’s reaction to North Korea missile test] Reference

Saxons had already made of Canterbury and Anderida, a 'Waste Chester,' that is, a desolated stronghold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of London] Reference

As if He had said, A kingdom divided against itself by civil war must be desolated, which is exemplified both in a house and in a city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark] Reference

Shriekin 'women an' desolated 'omesteads is what you enjoy, Alf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traffics and Discoveries] Reference

"desolated" by being the arena of conflict between the combatants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

Many a heart and home have been desolated by drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

Her Majesty looked positively desolated with sadness.    From Wordnik.com.  [That Sweet Little Old Lady] Reference

Seven years later a third visitation desolated England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference

Almost all the horses perished in the desolated country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm] Reference

The grey morning dawned gloomily on Chester's desolated home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Homestead] Reference

Wall, and the Great Tower, and which desolated the whole city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Is it a desolated and stricken home that I would care to see? '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference

In that year a fearful plague desolated all quarters of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

Such indeed is the enemy by which the country is already desolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

"I am desolated, señor!" exclaimed Don Carlos, with a despairing gesture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bandit Love] Reference

The Inca desolated that town with fire and sword, and with very great cruelty.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

Of all the cities devastated by flood in Indiana, Peru was the most desolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

Great parts of the country were thereby desolated, and the population diminished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Finland in Carts] Reference

The way of the transgressor in the desolated valley of the Conemaugh is hard indeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

Feeling against the northern victors was at fever height in poor, desolated, defeated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten American Girls From History] Reference

War leaves his victim on the field, and homes desolated by it mourn over her cruelty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

Prior is desolated by the loss of Louis, who loves him but can't conquer his fear of AIDS.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Seven-Hour Gay Fantasia] Reference

They worked such havoc and slaughter, that they desolated, and depopulated half the kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference

They beg the lives of fathers, husbands, sons; they point to ruined homes and desolated lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories] Reference

Johnstown to examine into the condition of affairs and to guard the desolated district with troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

Atahualpa was very cruel, he killed right and left, destroyed, burnt, and desolated whatever opposed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

Ccapac Yupanqui set out from Cuzco with these orders, and desolated all the provinces which did not submit.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

Legions of women and children would have their whole future desolated by the hand of this mighty scoundrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?] Reference

I should feel that not a Home would be desolated; not a woman would become less a lover and blesser of Home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

The storm was that tremendous tempest which desolated the British coasts in 1703, commemorated by Addison in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

They have desolated no country -- produced no tears but to wipe them away -- and broken no hearts but to heal them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The air is already reeking with infectious filth, and the alarm is widespread among the desolated and overwrought population.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference

And those that would not he slew, and their folk he trampled underfoot, and their herds and fields he destroyed and desolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference

Occasionally these frocked and sandalled ruffians met with deserved retribution at the hands of those whose homes they desolated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference

TV footage of desolated fathers burying dead children highlight a critical fact: America may (or may not) be winning the military war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind The Smiles] Reference

They desolated the country as far as Ancas-mayu and Otabalo, those who escaped from the fury of the Incas taking refuge in the fortress.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Incas] Reference

The great fire of 1666 desolated two-thirds of London, destroying thirteen thousand two hundred houses and eighty-nine churches, including.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

At Ebensburg that evening ten teams were secured after much trouble and the supplies sent overland seventeen miles to the desolated valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference