Desolate and Sole

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Desolate adjective - Sad from lack of companionship or separation from others.

Usage example: destitute and desolate since her husband walked out on her

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Sole and desolate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sole" instead the word "Desolate" as an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Words: desolation, desolately, desolated

Sole adjective - Belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named.

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Desolate and sole are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Desolate" instead the word "Sole" as an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Words: solely, soled, soling

Face-Revealing Turn: In Gears of War 3, the group enters Mercy, which is mysteriously desolate and the sole survivor they find is quickly killed by unseen monsters.

Source: Video Game / Gears of War
Once a bustling marketplace full of life and people, under Ganondorf's iron-fisted rule it became a dark, desolate place, roaming ReDeads its sole inhabitants.

Source: Bleak Level
Kate Craig's Heart of Ice, in which the sole survivor of a plane crash in a desolate, frozen landscape is repeatedly visited by a zombie-like creature that eats the corpses of the other travelers.

Source: No Party Like a Donner Party

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