Desolation example sentences

By the 1850s, reports from most weaving regions of India narrated stories of decline and desolation.Thirty years later I visited his town and the temple, which was now drowned in an air of desolation.As Mahatma Gandhi's follower Mira Behn wrote in 1949, by “science and machinery he [mankind] may get huge returns for a time, but ultimately will come desolation.