Sentence examples for desolate site from inspiring English sources

The desolate site is surrounded on three sides by pinnacles of limestone and 10m-deep shafts where phosphate was mined many years ago.

Soon after the bombing, Syria raced to level the desolate site and build a structure there that resembled the site's former main building.

Dozens of their relatives, some who came from as far away as Florida, gathered at the desolate site waiting for news.

The Portland garden was conceived by the Japanese landscape designer Takuma Tono, who in 1963 gazed at the desolate site of the abandoned city zoo and envisioned paradise.

But since then new owners have filled the 1942 plant with tenants as part of a plan to transform the entire 150-acre, mostly desolate, site into a new neighborhood with the old building at its core.

The desolate site is on the eastern bank of the Euphrates, 90 miles north of the Iraqi border and seven miles north of a desert village at At Tibnah.

This is Yibna, in Rafah, one of the most desolate sites of destruction in the Gaza strip, where Palestinian children play in the ruins of their demolished homes.

William Loftus, the first outsider in modern times to see these sights in 1849, was almost overwhelmed: "I know of nothing more exciting or impressive than the first sight of one of these Chaldaean piles, looming in solitary grandeur from the surrounding plains and marshes... Of all the desolate sites I ever beheld, that of Warka incomparably surpasses all".

The new image of the desolate Syrian site was released yesterday by GeoEye, in Dulles, Va.

Some have wondered whether the sorry history of the Nets, or its desolate playing site, prejudiced voters?

EXHIBITIONS September * "ARVERNE: HOUSING ON THE EDGE" Teams from Yale, City College and Columbia University are among the designers of proposals for a desolate oceanfront site in Queens.