Why should the sunbeam paint thy glittering clime, When the keen mildew desolates the field!
Grasped in his mighty hand, A mace, tremendous, desolates the land; The tower rolls headlong down the steep, The mountain shrinks before its wasteful sweep.
Why should the sunbeam paint thy glittering clime, When the keen mildew desolates the field?
It resembles the storm that desolates the plain, but which is afterwards succeeded by the glowing beauties of the renovated landscape.
He springs his mines, And desolates a nation at a blast.
Her voice changes here; an indescribable alteration not only hardens, but desolates it.
When war desolates the nations of Europe, the people migrate hither to avoid its horrors; when it desolates ours, they remain at home.
It desolates me to hear of her extremity," the captain answered, with a fine irony, "but I am here to do my duty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "desolates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
