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Sentence Examples The billows of death overwhelmed him, and cast his exanimate body on the desolate shore. The Hebraic people, ancient and abandoned, had always looked for refuge, had never found anything but desolate deserts. There lay the great, rolling mattress of the Rannoch Moor, a vast and desolate place protected on all its sides by uprearing mountains. It sat as an empty shell from 1965 to 1978, a vacant, desolate, boarded up old brick building. Alone in the desolate town, Jane wanders the vales and windy moors for many hours, on the lookout to faintly explore this town. Trucks fly, speedsters explode, and tires spin as Max and his crew take to the desolate highway. But it's late afternoon along a desolate strip of Interstate 15 near Sheep Mountain, above which a pale half-moon is on the rise. She was only a few nights from the monastery when she pitched camp in a desolate swamp. A gleaming silver locomotive barrels through desolate scrub, oblivious to the harshness of the environment. The story of sacrifice, of both men and beast, when combined with the desolate scenery creates a haunting atmosphere. You cannot live well without a friend, and if Jesus is not your best friend, you will end up being heartbroken and desolate. Thinking of a nice warm heated dorm as she walked through the desolate streets, her mind began to wander. The video takes place in a desolate apocalyptic hellscape where carnivorous zombie toddlers rule all that they see. He embraced a few desolate Brazilians, saluted some unused substitutes, stood back from the party and took his leave. This was helpful in verifying the movement of people in taxis through the desolate Iraqi hinterlands. After a long night in our desolate camp, Jon and I have a palaver with Karchung. We are intrigued by narrative clues, and must piece them together to see the whole picture. The revelations are desolate. South is the desert and further south-east are more mountains with desolate plateaux and volcanic cones and craters. A tiny floatplane carries us for about an hour to a desolate, grassy, mosquito-ridden beach called Nunavachak. What possessed you to train for a marathon at the North Pole, one of the coldest, most desolate places on Earth? Show More Sentences It has virgin temperate woods, craggy desolate coastlines, fjords, glaciers and soft, rolling hills. The desolate pine forests, craggy gullies and rugged desert country are all perfectly suited to this style of movie. Their employer was the John Pickle Company, a manufacturer of oil pipelines and pressure vessels on the desolate western limits of town. Thousands of people had fled from the genocidal war to exist in overcrowded, desolate refugee camps. It told of desolate, regretted things befallen happy cities long since in the prime of the world. The desolate plains seemed to end and, I could've sworn I had imagined it, but there seemed to be a faint glimmer of light on the horizon. Next morning we strolled, unwashed, along the desolate shoreline of this godforsaken place called Na'ama Bay. The world sees the desert as a desolate land offering only hardship and discomfort. It was a desolate barren land covered in deserts, forgotten and ignored by many. While having it fixed, she saw a small, empty, desolate theater, which was attached to an abandoned desert inn. Those poems are all the more welcome after walking through more desolate places. She was now staring at a bleak and desolate landscape with nothing in the horizon but impassable mountains and valleys. It's strange that someone who was born in London could feel at home in such a desolate place, but I like it. There lay the great, rolling mattress of the Moor, a vast and desolate place protected on all its sides by uprearing mountains. We can't begin to imagine how the geologists survived so long in this wild and desolate place. I hold true to my belief that there is beauty in even the most desolate places. The stars were twinkling in the night sky and a full moon gazed down on this desolate place waiting to become another new neighborhood. But they are not being forced to stay in this desolate place against their will. Finally, they stopped, seeing the sun almost touching the horizon as they now stood in a desolate area, a barren wasteland. Erik told them that such a meal if eaten regularly could sustain them across even the most arid and desolate lands. Show More Sentences Throughout December, the garden can be a desolate place, void of any horticultural flickering of life. There was no need for guards at the wall because there was no way out and it was a desolate place outside. Maybe I'm just finely tuned, but right now, he just looks so forlorn, so desolate, that I don't know which way to turn. Eventually, Jasmine's more volatile emotions faded away of their own accord to be replaced by a feeling of desolate loneliness. Bereavement is feeling grief, feeling desolate, or feeling deprived after the loss of a loved one. I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the National Party after that speech. Lyall stood in the middle of the yard, desolate and bereft, not sure what to do or think. My fellow writers if my words have left you feeling a trifle depressed and desolate, cheer up. He missed his last session because of family commitments, this left me feeling desolate and undermined. It made me realise how utterly desolate I had felt over the last few weeks. The pyrotechnic display that followed the performance was dazzling, and a rare occurrence in these otherwise desolate parts. I have never seen a more disconsolate and desolate group than the Party after that speech. Up the other side, above masses of jungle, rose a rocky, desolate mountain. Even if I were dead, he left me to wander the desolate battlefield, my soul forever in turmoil in such a place. It is in a desolate location surrounded by grotty blocks of flats and graffiti. Already there is a museum and a horse racetrack, and last year more than 30,000 tourists visited the desolate area. Ahmed guides us through the flat, desolate landscape with a complicated series of frenzied taps, hand wiggles and screams. All of 11 years old, Nikosi comes across by turn as wise, winsome, overburdened, and sometimes desolate. In the desolate reaches of Africa, the real thrill of hunting a leopard and an elephant is alive and kicking. A ship had thrown its anchor down near desolate shores, constantly ravaged and pummeled by persistent waves. Show More Sentences The land was no longer rich and green but desolate and parched, gaping with hard, dusty cracks splitting deep into the earth. All the ideas evident in early German expressionism are applied to the simple design of two cars roaring down a dark and desolate road. Northern fulmars are a keystone Arctic species, providing vital nutrients to an otherwise desolate landscape. Even seen through rose-tinted glasses, the 1980s were a desolate musical place. If it wasn't for a circle of gold around his neck, he would have appeared desolate. As they were rescued, the crew and a desolate captain watched the ship slip astern into deep water, disappearing from view. Expeditions would scavenge the desolate landscape for precious supplies, such as fuel and water. He was banished to desolate Lake Baikal in Siberia to tend sheep for nineteen years. As we drove up the road with its hairpin curves to Mukkali, the air was dry and the surrounding hills looked desolate. This image quickly gave way to a barren and desolate tree, with whistling wind in the soundscape. The situation facing some women upon their release, however, is so desolate that they have returned to the prison seeking food and shelter. His heavy boots thudded against the pavement of a desolate road as he kept on walking in a semiconscious daze. The day after her unit withdrew from Monrovia, Black Diamond's compound and the sequestered house presented a desolate sight. They consider the desolate border area part of their territory and follow their goats, sheep and cattle there to graze. Exhaustion, heat rash and blisters, yet on she walked, exerting mind over matter, through the bleak and desolate Sahara Desert. Jaimie Todd's timbered design successfully evokes the world of the trestle bridge and the desolate prison. That could be very desolate or it could be very inspiring, in terms of shunyata, the Buddhist understanding of emptiness. Between the icy rain, the blasts of wind, and the crashing noise of the falls, the area seems desolate and terrible. Because of the phosphate mining, all but the very edges of the island has been turned in to a desolate, moonlike setting. Isolated in a bleak house in the midst of a desolate, frozen landscape, Conradin finds himself unable to adjust to his aunt's harsh regime. Show More Sentences At low tide it's empty, a desolate moonscape of gray glacial silt dotted by glistening tide pools. A somewhat desolate but lyrical sense of place pervades the work. A young man in a desolate Hungarian town is devoted to his elderly uncle, a musicologist working on a revisionist theory of the music of the spheres. This area is certainly pretty desolate, particularly on a dour mid-November weekend when low cloud dominated and frequent snow squalls cut visibility to less than 100 metres. Nevertheless, although Herbert becomes desolate, he never despairs. Louisa also devotes much of her time to feeding underprivileged children in the desolate Kurland Village in South Africa. Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild. But Nev had been betrayed by his church, and his heart-broken death left his family poor and desolate. Do you remember the scene in which the mayor and his cronies take Dmitri to this desolate place and threaten him with a gun? This region has not always been as arid and desolate as it is today. The film follows a group of college coeds who decide to take a wild trip during spring break over to a Halloween-style rave on a dark and desolate island. The film retraces much of Che's journey, the camera wandering through desolate valleys and rocky cliffs while Che's words are read on the soundtrack. We linger in the city's few remaining open spaces, desolate and serene as large monolithic apartment blocks overlook the fertile land like greedy developers. It's now clear to me that the Alpha Male is a dinosaur, dragging his hopeless old carcass across a desolate desert and finding no water, no sustenance and is almost history. At the posh five-diamond resort an hour north of Milwaukee in Kohler, Wis., the world-class golf links were hard-frozen and desolate, covered in snow. He spent his summer vacation collaborating with scientists on a project involving launching small rockets into storm clouds above a desolate region to trigger lightning bolts. The yard and the vast prairie lands were bleak and desolate. Fortunately on this day the place is desolate, devoid of any human sign. You can reach the mountain top and find it a desolate and lonely place. To his chagrin, he's assigned to a desolate base in icy Greenland. Show More Sentences John dropped me off where the road splits, a desolate place. The tanks chase the terrified tenderfoot across a desolate battlefield. The palm trees have gone, leaving a desolate wasteland of stumps reaching into the sky. She didn't answer him, another desolate sniff sounding instead. The smoke she'd seen, it came from here, this desolate place. It was a barren, desolate place, but I could see a city in the distance. The railway went through some of Australia's most desolate and flood prone country, often suffering washouts with passengers marooned for several days. From what they could see it was a desolate place, huge walls of reddish rock on all sides of them, with trees growing thickly on top of the cliffs. An immense amount has been built in two areas, both of which were desolate wastelands in 1992 because they had either been underneath or very close to the wall. I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling. But pirates who heard the sound left St Govan desolate when they stole the bell. Ibises, spoonbills, herons and the desolate bitterns have been classified in the same order. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. I never imagined seeing something so wild and desolate as those emerging dark rocks in the middle of the raging waves. Turning right instead of left at Brighton, the Doctor and Romana arrive on desolate pleasure planet Argolis. Then came the Wall, and almost everything that was left was razed to allow the guards a clear field of fire over the desolate minefields. A bottle message was reported found on desolate Bouvet Island, 1,600 miles southwest of the Cape of Good Hope and not far from Kobenhavn's track. He was visiting San Francisco and had questions about desolate Angel. The northern and eastern faces all loom above the desolate upper Deepdale, which is divided by Greenhow End. The scrubland I'd be crossing looked desolate, but at least it wasn't a desert. Show More Sentences Indeed, the infantry battle on the desolate ridgeline above Darwin would probably have seemed remarkably familiar to a World War I stormtrooper. As she gazed, an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot. He explained that the hill was a Zoroastrian fire temple which was burnt down during the Achaemenian reign and remained desolate for a long time. The desolate character of this once-thriving industrial district takes on a Ballardian pall in the noonday sun. Khan and Jahan became desolate and approached doctors and underwent fertility treatment but nothing happened. He exposed the desolate inhumanity of their oppressive, centralised state and he did so from the perspective of democratic socialism. The town is built on the 8,000 hectares of a private farm, along the Orange River, in the beautifully desolate Northern Cape province. Bran CastlePerched on a rocky bluff in Transylvania, in a mass of turrets and castellations, Bran Castle overlooks a desolate mountain pass. They sat in the shade of the pole and brush ramada in front of the place and sipped their drinks and looked out at the desolate stillness of the little crossroads at noon. Margaret's solitary wanderings around the desolate old house lead to an obsession with the teachings of Mahometism, as explained in a book she discovers in the library. Very desolate was that valley, having a dark aspect and a ghastful, such as a man might look for in the infernal glens of Pyriphlegethon or Acheron. Enterprise away team visits Velara III where a group of terraformers are working to transform the seemingly desolate planet into one capable of supporting life. Examples from Classical Literature And how desolate was its abandonment, what a stream of silence and solitude it was! The Campagna now so desolate, the pontine marshes now so lonely, were then covered with inhabitants. And yet there is nothing desolate or dreary in the aspect of the pontine Marshes. Words cannot express the desolate aspect of this vast table-land, Akaba or the 'going-up,' as the Arabs call it. Rather they seemed places for summer trips alone, to be left in winter icebound and desolate. He walked in unchallenged, unwelcomed, going from room to room, finding all equally desolate. A dreary, desolate, and barren scene it is, with no life in it except the isolated life upon the Mont. They were in some snug harbour, however, of a desolate and uninhabited coast. As Raniero was riding on through a desolate portion of the cilician mountain district, his candles were all used up. The contrast between the desolate territories of Bootan, and the sheet of cultivation presented by cooch Behar was striking. Deaf is the heart to which the Lares call from the desolate floors in vain. It is hardly possible to give an idea of the desolate aspect of these ledgy islets. Helen returns to her home in triumph, while 33 Andromache is left desolate. Day after day they pushed forward, skirting at times the edge of miasmic swamps, and generally sticking to the desolate plain. In the course of a few hours poor lunes was brought to me in a most desolate condition. To the eye of the stranger such places as Seymour and crossline are desolate and dreary. The desolate loneliness of the old came to him when his old master was gone. In that wilderness of London, more desolate than the trackless desert, what was she? The tombstones below were wet, the treed were dripping, the churchyard was desolate. We must find new islands to denude, to ravage, to desolate, for our adornment. Show More Sentences To the cast and north of our hill was an expanse of rolling, desolate wilderness. All my plans for my work and my life assumed the most gray and desolate hues. Since the death of that son she has been a desolate, desponding woman, always bewailing him. Weird formations of varicolored rocks had formed desolate little wildernesses all by themselves. The Major described the drainage basin of the San Rafael as wofully barren and desolate, like the rest of our surroundings. The part which lies within the Arctic Circle is very desolate and sterile, consisting chiefly of sand and reindeer moss. She wur nowt but a desolate, homely lass, as seemt to ha' no place i' th' world, an' yet wur tender and weak-hearted to th' core. I return to my empty nest a desolate mother, but never shall I forget your generous sympathy. As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gayety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. You are going to desolate us, Jacintito, by absenting yourself? The road between Baku and Tiflis runs through a stony, desolate country. What hath availed me Syrtes or Scylla, what desolate Charybdis? It is time to go away, and soon billingsgate will be nearly desolate. Farmhouses would be burned, stack-yard and byre made desolate. When the knell of my thirtieth birthday sounded, I suddenly realised, with a desolate feeling at the heart, that I was alone in the world. Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate? Penned in by the desolate weather, she recaptured the sense of space which the motor had tried to rob from her. It was nothing but sand, drear and desolate as far as the eye could reach. Below him was a shrinking, dwindling landscape, wind-swept and desolate. When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore. Show More Sentences Perhaps they are falling still, perhaps they creep about their desolate kraals in the skins of snakes. His club, near Hyde Park Corner, had never seemed to him so desolate. Darker and more desolate seemed his stately home, and when the Fairies asked for flowers, he felt ashamed that he had none to give them. At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard sighing amid a desolate silence. The eyes of the listeners involuntarily sought the forms of the Indians, with a compassionate interest in their desolate fortune. It was a dreary, desolate night that he spent in the topsy-turvy cottage. My kraals are desolate, the cattle wander untended on the hills, birds pick at the unguarded crops. Was this to be our last fight in the desolate island of Mindanao? Now the garden lay deserted, desolate in the mistiness of the moonlight. My whole being was desolate over the non-existence of another ideal. In a silent, desolate spot, In the night stone-frozen and clear, The wanderer's hand on the sail Is gripped by the fingers of fear. The landing was prolonged into a bare corridor, right and left, desolate perspectives of white and gold decoration without a strip of carpet. And over this desolate face of nature a stern silence reigned, scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels and puffins. A pilot, calling at his dwelling, found it pillaged and desolate. On the 16th of January, 1832, we anchored at Porto Praya, in St.The neighbourhood of Porto Praya, viewed from the sea, wears a desolate aspect. The aspect of this edge of the town was not entirely without justification for the doctor's hints about desolate moods and environments. One of these brilliantly white and level expanses in the midst of the brown and desolate plain, offers an extraordinary spectacle. The road I was tramping at the moment was somewhat desolate. Save for such, that big area of common was silent and desolate, and the charred bodies lay about on it all night under the stars, and all the next day. Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible. Show More Sentences Let me call back to the desolate gardens the fair forms that are gone, and their soft voices blessing you will bring to your breast a never failing joy. At eleven the meeting closed, and the desolate audience filed out into the snow, muttering curses upon the few traitors who had got repentance and gone up on the platform. Barren, windswept, and shrouded in perpetual fog, the Aleutians embody some of the harshest weather and most desolate terrain on the North American continent. If it were grim and desolate upon the English border, however, what can describe the hideous barrenness of this ten times harried tract of France? Her great dark eyes wander blankly over the fields like the eyes of one who is desolate, homeless, unloved, not the promised bride of a brave tender man. But all desolate and unpeopled as it was, it was illustrious ground. It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom's cabin. In the maps that desolate coast is written Navy Board Inlet, but the Inuit name is best, because the country lies at the very back of everything in the world. The bark of some of the Eucalypti falls annually, or hangs dead in long shreds which swing about with the wind, and give to the woods a desolate and untidy appearance. They had to traverse the most dreary and desolate mountains, and barren and trackless wastes, uninhabited by man, or occasionally infested by predatory and cruel savages. He caught himself saying quite mystically that a spiritual plane always looked to those on the sensual or Dickens plane, not merely austere, but desolate. Who shall measure what an all-pervading Spirit may do with these capabilities of our mortality, or the ways in which He may encourage the desponding souls of the desolate? The garret of the house that Legree occupied, like most other garrets, was a great, desolate space, dusty, hung with cobwebs, and littered with cast-off lumber. On his left hand, further away, rose the gloomy ruins of an abbey, with a desolate pile of buildings, which covered two sides of a square attached to it. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of desolate? Words that rhyme with desolate What is the past tense of desolate? What is the adverb for desolate? What is the adjective for desolate? What is the noun for desolate? Translations for desolate Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words desmosomes Desmond desmond desmoid desmodium desmans desolated desolately desolateness desolating desolation desolations 8-letter Words Starting With d de des deso desol desola desolat