Sentence examples for lay desolate from inspiring English sources

This border town, where the only bridge linking Afghanistan to its northern neighbor, Uzbekistan, was opened with fanfare on Saturday, lay desolate and inactive today, a junkyard of discarded Soviet military armor and decaying concrete buildings.

Another book, "The Long Emergency Atlantic Monthly Pressss, 2005), by James Howard Kunstler, an author and journalist who writes about economic and environmental issues, argues that American suburbs and cities may soon lay desolate as people, starved of oil, are forced back to the land to adopt a hardscrabble, 19th-century-style agrarian life.

Everywhere lay desolate parts.

Zamperini lying desolate in a life raft, looking up to the stars, needs something much softer.

This, combined with a rainy season that now arrives two months later, sees agricultural livelihoods on hold, as land lies desolate next to the roadside.

Jewish cemeteries on the east side are pristine whereas the few Muslim ones in the west lie desolate.Some say Bill Clinton, when negotiating as president in the late 1990s, unintentionally speeded Israel's encroachment.

Things are looking up along the 11-mile sand spit on the south shore of Queens that used to be known as "the poor man's Riviera" -- particularly at its midriff, where vast swaths of land once crammed with summer bungalows have lain desolate for decades, orphans of urban nonrenewal.

On one side stood civilisation, knowledge, culture, religion and everything else that distinguished humanity from other species; on the other lay a wilderness, desolate spiritually and physically.

Where Arcadia and Elysium lay, there was a desolate waste, pocked with craters.

Miles and miles of a desolate sandbank lay like a huge amphibious reptile of some antediluvian age, with its scales glistening in shining colours.

Besieged and embattled, the Old Quarter lay just beyond a desolate no-man's land around Homs's iconic new Clock Tower.