Sentence examples for a place of desolation from inspiring English sources

Within that single flash of light, my beloved Hiroshima became a place of desolation, with heaps of skeletons and blackened corpses everywhere.

And there is the moon's surface, up close and forbidding, with shadowy craters like pockmarks: a place of absolute desolation.

The llano was a place of extreme desolation, a vast, trackless, and featureless ocean of grass where white men became lost and disoriented and died of thirst; a place where the imperial Spanish had once marched confidently forth to hunt Comanches, only to find that they themselves were the hunted, the ones to be slaughtered.

Hell is a place of despair and desolation.

Jerusalem, then, is a place of deep sorrow, utter desolation but also of hope and redemption.

Even so, gettest me out of this place of desolation".

Abu Dhabi is a place of palaces and pearls, deluxe hotels and gaudy opulence – apart from the desert, that is, the rippling, drifting sands that speak only of desolation.

Iraq seemed a place painted in desolation, and decorated with despair.

Right now, the harbor peninsula has the curious aura of a place where dreams and desolation commingle.

It hinged on a lot of desolation".

He returned 11 months later to find a scene of desolation.