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Meanings of desolation in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "devastation"
Examples for "devastation"
1
Earlier this year in Ireland we witnessed the devastation that flooding caused.
2
As relatively calm weather returned, the devastation left by Doris became clear.
3
The devastation caused by the civil war soured any sense of triumph.
4
The Atlanta area had escaped the general devastation almost without a scratch.
5
The wholesale devastation of the island was an idea of General Weyler's.
Usage of desolation in inglês
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
português
Desolation through the time
Desolation across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common