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Meanings of desolation in English
Synonyms
Examples for "nakedness"
Examples for "nakedness"
1
The scrutator looked down at his grizzled nakedness, grinned, and said, 'Quite!'
2
Her nakedness isn't going to bring about change or stop police brutality.
3
Their nakedness grabbed national headlines and forced the country to pay attention.
4
But I saw the grounds now in their nakedness because I understood.
5
There was seductiveness for Elisaveta in the nakedness of these impetuous bodies.
1
They returned his gaze, the bleakness in their eyes matching his own.
2
Neither this nor the cold wind or the bleakness dampened his spirits.
3
In the bleakness of their absence he always felt lonelier than before.
4
In its bleakness and beauty, it was a day for John McGahern.
5
To block out the vast sky in all its beauty and bleakness.
1
The bareness of extreme poverty marked everything on which my eyes rested.
2
Her feet, her little feet-theirbareness no longer troubled her-leftthe ground.
3
The hospital-like bareness of the room evinced a simple taste in the owner.
4
The purple shadows of the palm-trees intensified the bareness of the sunny desert.
5
The bareness of the squalid room made the pain of it more poignant.
Usage of desolation in English
1
The desolation was gone; the desert bloomed and blossomed as the rose.
2
Their voice sings in the windows, and desolation is in the thresholds.
3
It was an hour of desolation; it was the day of doom.
4
The desolation of the picture of England in my mind grew congenial.
5
Even the sawdust pyramids and the stumps are magnificent in their desolation.
6
From somewhere in the white world of desolation, the answer came again:
7
The wind moaning in the through-going closes expressed a sense of desolation.
8
Death-sealed the land lay in its silent vastitude, in its despairful desolation.
9
My poor people have suffered too much; they are in great desolation.
10
The door flapped drearily and added to the desolation of the scene.
11
The desolation of the Jews, and prosperity of the church of Christ.
12
Cecil is out on the porch, in the last stages of desolation.
13
The whole scene might be fittingly described in the two words-greydesolation.
14
The devastating blast of war had left it the picture of desolation.
15
To the sisters there seemed a world of desolation in these words.
16
It is the desolation of her heart I speak of-notthe pollution.
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Translations for desolation
Portuguese
Desolation through the time
Desolation across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common