Use desolation in a sentence
Sentences starting with desolation
- Desolation was a mild name for it. [9]
- Desolation after desolation has swept over me; for each hour of happiness the treacherous trader, Love, as sold me I have paid a thousand hours of grief. [5]
Sentences ending with desolation
- France was a wreck, a ruin, a desolation. [5]
- The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. [4]
- This festival: the wedding of the Bride of the Nile to her mighty and unresting spouse, on whom the weal or woe of the land depended, was to be as a flowery oasis in the waste of dearth and desolation. [10]
- From here forward we moved through a storm-swept and smileless desolation. [5]
- Nevertheless, at such times, her feeling was one of desolation. [9]
- I'm the man they call Sudden Death and General Desolation! [5]
- William Wetherell, in one of his letters, had described that place as the Threshold of the Nameless Worlds, and so it had seemed to Jethro in the years of his desolation. [9]
- I would like much to see the fringes of the Jordan in spring-time, and Shechem, Esdraelon, Ajalon and the borders of Galilee--but even then these spots would seem mere toy gardens set at wide intervals in the waste of a limitless desolation. [5]
- Otherwise we moved in the midst of solitude, silence and desolation. [5]
- It takes a great deal of love to keep down the 'climbing sorrow' that swells up in a woman's throat when such memories seize upon her, in her moments of desolation. [6]
Short sentences using desolation
- Desolation? [11]
Sentences containing desolation two or more times
- He moved from desolation to desolation, but carried always with him the equal mind of a philosopher. [4]
More example sentences with the word desolation in them
- It was a world of ease, simplicity, and beauty; now it is a scene of desolation and misery. [5]
- These fearful fields, where such tempests of death used to rage, are peaceful enough now; no sound is heard, hardly a living thing moves about them, they are lonely and silent--their desolation is complete. [5]
- This ride gave us completely the wide and ghastly desolation of the mountain, the ruin that the lava has wrought upon slopes that were once green with vine and olive, and busy with the hum of life. [4]
- It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. [5]
- Not good February, though, because in the midst of the wild desolation the forget-me-not still bloomed, lovely as ever. [5]
- Sitting here in this winter desolation Jaspar Hume once more beheld these scenes of twenty years before and followed himself, a poor dispensing clerk in a doctor's office, working for that dream of achievement in which his mother believed; for which she hoped. [11]
- I stood in the road long after you had gone, and a desolation such as I had never known came over me. [9]
- In the summer, that season of desolation for Honora, when George Hanbury and Algernon Cartwright and other young gentlemen were at the seashore learning to sail boats and to play tennis, Peter Erwin came to his own. [9]
- Long lines of surf poured over the arid desert, and, as if repelled by the desolation of this strand, returned to the wide sea whence they came. [10]
- Such roasting heat, such oppressive solitude, and such dismal desolation can not surely exist elsewhere on earth. [5]
- It seems a sort of sacrilege to disturb the glamour of old romance that pictures her to us softly from afar off as through a tinted mist, and curtains her ruin and her desolation from our view. [5]
- Why I cannot see, unless it was remote from the route of travel, and the desolation of it was congenial to him. [4]
- I have just said that there was nothing but death and desolation in these hideous places, but I forgot. [5]
- There was a reaction that sunk me to the earth; the deadly silence, solitude, desolation, were awful; the craving for companionship, the hopelessness of relief, were what I should dread to feel again. [14]
- Small shreds and patches of it must be very beautiful in the full flush of spring, however, and all the more beautiful by contrast with the far-reaching desolation that surrounds them on every side. [5]
- A land given over to the cayote and the raven--which is but another name for desolation and utter solitude. [5]
- Somehow all at once, and for the first time in her life, there was borne in upon her a feeling of awful desolation and loneliness. [11]
- That other class of wiseacres who twist prophecy in such a manner as to make it promise the destruction and desolation of the same city, use judgment just as bad, since the city is in a very flourishing condition now, unhappily for them. [5]
- The ghastly desolation of the place was as tremendously complete as if Dor'e had furnished the working-plans for it. [5]
- So the sense of desolation and bitterness took possession of me. [14]
- His father, ignorant, needy, and thriftless, content if he could keep soul and body together for himself and his family, was ever seeking, without success, to better his unhappy condition by moving on from one such scene of dreary desolation to another. [7]
- Which is, that lightning, kept to itself, is quiescent; it is the assaulting contact of the thunderbolt that releases it from captivity, ignites its awful fires, and so produces an instantaneous combustion and explosion which spread disaster and desolation far and wide in the earth. [5]
- The dumb desolation lifted a little, and a look of under standing seemed to pierce her tragic apathy. [11]
- And I have knelt 'Mong myriads in Thy house of prayer; And still sad desolation felt, Though heavy freighted was the air With litanies of love: one ghoul Cried, "No man careth for thy soul! [11]
- He awoke to it slowly, from a desolation in which he tasted the last bitter of homesickness, the utter misery of idleness and listlessness. [8]
- The strangest thing is, that we are called on to rejoice over this hopeless blank-to receive this bitter bereavement as great gain--to welcome this unutterable desolation as a state of pleasant freedom. [14]
- It was older, indeed, and lined and worn, but that fearful look of desolation which she had once surprised upon it, and which she in that instant feared to see, was not there. [9]
- Many a time, in the past ten days, the sight of her has reminded me, with a pang, of the desolation which uttered itself in the closing sentence of your last letter to me. [5]
- After a half hour we reached and began to cross the lava of 1858, and the wild desolation and gloom of the mountain began to strike us. [4]
- A feeling of helplessness, of utter desolation crept over Janet; powerless to comfort herself, how could she comfort her sister? [9]
- Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. [5]
- Even the bad great man gone leaves a sense of desolation behind. [11]
- There was a general appearance of ruin and desolation. [4]
- It makes me feel as old as these dreary hills to look down upon these moss-hung ruins, this historic desolation. [5]
- We do not embellish the general desolation of a desert much. [5]
- It describes in elaborate detail what it terms a "terrestrial paradise," and closes with the startling information that this paradise is "a scene of desolation and misery. [5]
- Description fails to do justice to the abomination of desolation of that vast battle-field in the rain, and the imagination, refuses to reconstruct the scene of peace--the chateaux and happy villages, the forests and pastures, that flourished here so brief a time ago. [9]
- The higher the civilization has risen, the more abject is the desolation of barbarism that ensues. [4]
- We were surrounded by a hideous desolation. [5]
- With a face as pale and cold as the western sky, the desolation of this last parting and a tragic renunciation giving her a deathly beauty, Fleda stood beside the man who must hereafter be, to her, father, people, and all else. [11]
- The tourists, one and all, remark upon the deep, brooding loneliness and desolation of the vast river. [5]
- From its lair about Point Desolation, from the glaciers of the Greenland continent, sweeping round the coast, leaving wrecks in its track, it marched right athwart the other conflicting winds, churning them into a fury, and inaugurating chaos. [4]
- But there was a romantic addition to the colored desolation because the Spaniards and the Jesuits had been there. [4]
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