Sentence examples for was left desolate from inspiring English sources

Over the course of time, shops were built in the courtyard and the synagogue was left desolate, in a pile of rubble.

There, however, Catherine and her baby die during childbirth, and Henry is left desolate at the loss of the great love of his life.

But surely, you might object, any use of this site in the interim is better than it being left desolate?

Her actor parents – Charlotte Holland and the American director and actor Sam Wanamaker, who came to England to escape McCarthyism and conceived the idea of building Shakespeare's Globe on the South Bank – were against her becoming an actor, fearing she would be left desolated by a life involving constant rejection.

Hedeby as a civil town never recovered from Harald's destruction, and was left completely desolate when what remained was looted by Slavic tribes in 1066.

All that was left in that damaged, desolate space was evidence that the world could disappear in a moment, leaving you God knows where.

Our thoughts are with any other family this has happened to and we pray that no other family is left as desolate as we are without our precious baby".

All that's left is a desolate plateau: "The fruit trees have been cut down for firewood.

Blacks were left with a desolate urban shell in which the museum sat marooned.

The apocalypse is caused by an uncontrollable virus which scythes through the elite population, and Jimmy is left to starve in a desolate wasteland, the last human being, surrounded by Crake's wandering automata.

All that is left now is a ruined and desolate landscape of factories and office blocks, where exhausted fighters from both sides hide.