High Brooms was a desolate tract inhabited by Romany Gypsies, very many of Kent's population today will have Gypsy heritage - whether they choose to admit this is another matter.

He then sojourned in the Lakhi Jungle, a desolate and sandy tract comprising mainly present-day districts of Bhatinda and Faridkot.

Next a desolate tract he has owned for years, home to an abandoned bowling alley, where he dreams of a sprawling supermarket, the kind with a coffee bar, sushi chef and gourmet takeout.

The land was part of a failed 1960's residential development called the "Sunshine Valley Ranchettes," now a desolate tract of desert scrubland outside of Deming, New Mexico.

The desolate coastal tract from Jalan to Ras Naws has no specific name.

Fighting for the Great Rann - It's a desolate, barren tract of land, but the armed forces guard it with a fierceness that inspires nothing short of awe.

Mr. Mandela also said that polling stations in black rural areas, many of them desolate tracts that are hard to reach, had not been as well organized as those areas where white and mixed-race voters gathered.

It was a desolate tract of land, even by the standards of the Great Desert, streaked with a curious dark sandstone the Catechists alone knew how to work.

He had persuaded the head of a nearby Trappist monastery to lease him the desolate tract for 100 years at a rent of 25 cents a year.

Settlers clung together, leaving large tracts desolate about them as the price of the clinging-empty, that is, until population increase filled it.