They walk a straight path between home and work, never glimpsing the most desolate neighborhoods.

In some desolate neighborhoods, nearly half of the housing stock has been razed or has decayed to the point that it is uninhabitable.

I looked around again, but still saw nothing except a desolate neighborhood, of which I'd seen plenty in South Adrilankha.

As we made our way through the desolate and godforsaken old neighborhood, neither of us spoke a word.

The remainder were unlicensed gypsies or drivers of livery cabs that respond on call, often to the city's most desolate neighborhoods.

Even in a desolate, wind-whipped neighborhood hard by the ocean, the police regularly shine lights into the van in the middle of the night.

The sometimes desolate neighborhood doesn't faze him.

Office buildings are sprouting along the waterfront and formerly desolate neighborhoods are filled with refugees from Manhattan.

Damon lived with his mother, who is on welfare, in Mott Haven, a desolate, violent neighborhood.

She's learned to deal with unsympathetic traffic, desolate neighborhoods and directions issued in unfamiliar dialects.