Sentence examples for or desolate from inspiring English sources

Bombs often fall on empty farmland or desolate streets.

They became hypnotic drones, dance propulsion, bitter jokes and, most often, come-ons or desolate confessions.

(If there's a singer who could make these lines sound sinister or desolate, it sure isn't this one).

THIS is not the most God-forsaken, grim or desolate city in Britain, but it gives the main contenders a run for their money.

With her hair scraped back from a plain-pretty face sometimes dominated by black-rimmed glasses, Ms. Bush is believably either vibrant or desolate as Catherine contends none too successfully with her violently fluctuating emotions.

But all shall be well, for Beckett was never more potent than when writing for one woman, alone or desolate onstage, and Dwan, still in her thirties, is the foremost inheritor of that power.

An overindulged westerner goes to a desert, or a jungle, or a desolate hillside and is filmed looking despondent and/or flustered as they attempt some manual labour.

It has been portrayed by writers, film-makers, philosophers, artists and critics as a place of extremes, a metaphor for anything from death, war or religion to the primitive past or the desolate future.

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

But this is more than just a wonder at vastness or the desolate beauty of space – it's a wonder at how everything makes sense, how everything is connected.

The backgrounds, ghostly suggestions of mountains, roads, bodies of water, weather, ice floes or flat desolate landscape, are achieved by laying graphite and oil on the gesso surface, applying a sponge or a piece of crumpled tissue paper, then pulling it off.