Sentence examples for made desolate from inspiring English sources

"Homes have been made desolate, and the light of life in thousands of hearts has been quenched forever," he wrote.

Homes have been made desolate, and the light of life in thousands of hearts has been forever.

News of last week's conference at the Hofburg palace, where European leaders expressed sympathy but came up with no collective plan, made desolate but familiar reading.

The Darkling Thrush I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate     The weakening eye of day.

Stone quarries were gutting the hills, and Cole himself was soon complaining about the tanneries that fouled streams and denuded many acres of hemlock forest, so that "the most noble scenes are made desolate".

And many lands and cities were made desolate.

What is more, you will enslave the land in which the freedom of the Hellenes was won, make desolate the temples of the gods to whom they prayed before they overcame the Medes, and take away your ancestral sacrifices from those who founded and instituted them.

Celmins also made poetically desolate grisaille paintings from old news photographs of Second World War aircraft.

All made the desolate journey through Libya, where many migrants are forced into labor, imprisoned and brutalized.

In front of this picture she placed a cluster of photos that she had made of desolate landscapes in Central Asia.

The low, brick buildings scattered about the greensward, the pathos of the mullions, the urine-coloured linoleum – it all made a desolate impression on me.