Sentence examples for desolate appearance from inspiring English sources
Here, the landscape has a thirsty and desolate appearance, with frequent erosion of the calanchi, or badlands, type.
Writing in 1847, the clergyman and antiquarian Harry Longueville Jones said that St Mary's, which he called "a rather long and low building", was situated "in an uneven, rocky, and exposed locality" within a parish that had a "peculiarly bleak and desolate appearance".
These hills and the accompanying lava fields have dark soils spotted with lighter-coloured bunchgrass, which creates a leopard-skin effect that intensifies the desolate, windswept appearance of the Patagonian landscape.
Somewhere down the line, the church's worn-down appearance and relatively desolate location led to whispered tales of mass suicide, Satanic cults, and of course, stories about brushes with the sorrowful ghosts trapped in its walls.
Ila prison is a desolate 1930s structure that squats just outside Oslo, untypical in its careworn appearance of the affluent country in which it was built.
Bungie also felt that the desolate ring heightened the sense of Halo's mystery, and made the appearance of the parasitic Flood more terrifying and unexpected.
Her expression became desolate.
