I mistakenly went out the back door of the hotel bar onto a dark deserted Waikiki street.

Perhaps its being a deserted bit of waste land lying in an out-of-the-way corner gave it its charm for me.

Without the "oxygen elevator" in its mantle the earth would probably be a barren planet hostile to life.

Krämer: Yes, one cannot forget that the US has a desolate social system and that alone is reason enough that donations are already a part of everyday life there.

The police found his wallet on a deserted beach but the body was never found.