Sentence examples for desolate summer from inspiring English sources

The large, smeary bay window revealed a desolate summer scene.

In pointedly showing valuables in contrasting states — an antique vase filled with flowers in a home, then empty and cordoned off in a museum; the country house, bustling with life as the film opens and closes, but otherwise desolate — "Summer Hours" makes clear that what is lost here are not objects but presences, ways of life, perhaps the very things that are inspirations for art.

The streets were eerily desolate last Friday night in downtown Richmond, the East Bay city where unemployment hovers around twice the national average.

That Mr. Durr and his aunt were doing this there is no small feat since this strip of West 63rd Street was desolate seven years ago.

As the two friends wander through the desolate winter landscape of Coney Island, we learn about the sexual confusion and family tragedy that led to Richie's disappearance.

The intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Interstate 405 was desolate early Saturday, save for a few bored-looking police officers, busy keeping skateboarders from sneaking onto the highway to take photos of themselves doing tricks.

Only when I traveled this desolate 1,390-mile 1,390-milethreadthatugh remote wilderness cutld I appreciathrough the Aremoterps of Engineers endured wildernessbuilt the highway in nine frenzied months during World War II.

And despite floodlights that still blaze in the evening, the Showplace's parking lot was desolate last week except for an abandoned car, and the doors to the white building with grey and pink stripes were locked shut.

Her low voice gave foghorn strength to the opera's desolate last lines, after the widow has refused the Captain's empty condolences: "If a hundred / People were murdered / And their blood / Flowed in the wake / Of this ship like / Oil, only then / Would the world intervene.

As he led the feeble horses out into the snowy Russian waste, humming and dreaming of the love and music left behind, he was the very figure of Schubert's desolate winter traveller.He took the horses to a pond where they could break up the thick ice and drink.

He longs for his late mother on the album's penultimate track "Coldest Winter", which samples the desolate 1983 song "Memories Fade" by Tears for Fears.