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Example sentences for "desolately"

Lexicographically close words:
desks; desktop; desmids; desolate; desolated; desolateness; desolates; desolating; desolation; desolations
  1. He said that the acting was not bad, and that there was a small character part supposed to be a very haughty rich widow that he thought you might---- Desolately Gloria raised her glance until it fell out across the areaway.

  2. He rejoiced to see general and field-officers riding desolately about the barren camp deprived of their commands.

  3. Then she sat down desolately and began to cry, wondering what ever she should do.

  4. I had desolately made the crossing from country to country, had convoyed my aunt to her big house in one of the gloomy squares in a certain district, and then we had parted.

  5. Now I should have to pick the letters up again, all of them; set to work desolately to pick up the threads of the past; and work it back into life as one does half-drowned things.

  6. And all day the flat was desolately quiet.

  7. She stayed all day in a flat, desolately quiet, waiting for one moment when the dearest and best came home.

  8. The opulent abundance of the plain contrasts with the severity of mountain ranges desolately grand; and the name of each of all those cities thrills the heart with memories.

  9. The woman was in her coffin when he entered the little chamber, which was now so desolately clean; for he had given orders regarding her interment before leaving the house that stormy night, and they had been well obeyed.

  10. The clock in Elizabeth's dressing-room had struck eleven, but there she sat desolately looking into the fire, just as she had sunk into her chair on first entering the chamber.

  11. Does Elizabeth guess that her retention of the companion, to whom she so desolately clings, hangs on her remaining always as crushed as the first ten days after those cruel interviews with the Byngs, mother and son, had left her?

  12. It is the work of a second to sweep the latter aside, and discover his poor fiancee all alone, and crouching desolately in a low arm-chair.

  13. As for me, I am still utterly, desolately alone.

  14. The moon was rising desolately over Lashnagar, and he stood for a long time in the window looking at the dead waste of it all.

  15. A little cold hand squeezed Marcella's, and she answered Jimmy's eager questions about his father thoughtlessly, while a steamer coming into port hooted shrilly and desolately beyond the bar.

  16. The rest of the day she wandered desolately about her house, from one window to another, always staring, staring up at Hemlock Mountain.

  17. He's WITH her," Mrs. Wix desolately said.

  18. The rain streamed from the gutters and pattered desolately on the pavement below.

  19. The wind was moaning desolately through the trees.

  20. Nothing could be more real than Derry's sense of loss, no human being could weep more desolately or more unreasonably.

  21. She felt strangely shaken and cold, and desolately lonely.

  22. Down came a feldwebel on top of them, squealing desolately "Kamerad!

  23. There's a wide plain that knows desolately what German bombardment means: there are gentle hills rising out of it, south and west (will grapes ever be sweet on those sad hillsides again?


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desolately" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.