Sentence examples for desolate existence from inspiring English sources

For sure this would mean a dark and desolate existence in the basement.

The two last-named are still on the desolate sandy spit of Elephant Island, where under their shelter twenty-two of the crewmen eked out a bare existence for four and a half months.

Do people really pay close to a million dollars for this desolate, faux existence?

Since then, Bobby has been a marked man, leading a desolate, nervy existence in motels with his girlfriend, Amada Evaa Mendes), under armed guard.

In Moon and Oblivion, for example, extraterrestrial life is a desolate, lonely, inhuman existence of virtual slave labour and inauthentic pleasures – even inauthentic humans.

Can existence not exist?

Most of the characters lead a dull and meaningless existence in a desolate small town.

Edison's visits to desolate demimondes and Max's virtual existence bear the clear influence of cyberpunk.

(Last year's "Stranger Things," which borrowed liberally from "It," got closer to the original's atmosphere of vastness — its wintry, desolate "Upside Down" suggested that all of existence might be in danger).

Some might find this womanless nomadic existence a bit lacking if not desolate, but to Madden, life on the bus is the finally realized ideal of pure, unfettered freedom.

"The Lost Book" ends with a desolate image of the afterlife as an extension of a purgatorial existence, when O'Brien addresses his father's ghost: Was there another world, where you belonged, Or one more corridor where you still sit, rereading With the patience of a lifetime Last week's paper, hoping it might yield To scrutiny and show the outcome changed?