Sentence examples for desolate shore from inspiring English sources

Consider two nineteenth-century Englishmen, each standing on a desolate shore: the poet Keats in his sonnet "When I have fears…" and Wells's Time Traveller.

Next up are the desolate shores of the dazzling Salton Sea.

Lily and Alison are best friends, unhappy teenagers coming of age on the photogenically desolate shores of California's storied Salton Sea.

On the equally desolate opposite shore, Herod the Great built Machaerus, the formidable stronghold described by Josephus, where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded by the younger Herod.

And here in Provincetown, where they finally made landfall, four of their number died, on what were then desolate, sandy shores.

Then, these desolate, salt-soaked shores were loved or visited by almost nobody.

Does the convict dream of it in his cell, this desolate house by the shore?

Unlike the edges of most bodies of water, which are given over to restaurants and marinas, this shore was desolate and unbuilt.

Four Fridays ago, Doug Schwartz spent the morning as he has most Fridays for more than a decade: stacking rocks and bits of ruin into pillar-like sculptures on a desolate stretch of the South Shore of Staten Island.

Portuguese sailors who risked washing up on its deadly shore called this desolate region that runs north from of the coastal resort town of Swakopmund to the Angolan border the "The Gates of Hell".

Thirteen tiny tombstones for young children in Cooling churchyard (Dickens's acknowledged source, on the Hoo peninsula) indicate why, to this day, these shores remain so desolate.