desolates
- present tense form of desolate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But your misrepresentation which pained me most, in fact desolates me to the extent that I am unfit for work, is your statement that I weigh 200 Ib.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sudden death of Leontes' young son desolates him.
From Time Magazine Archive
He visits Barbara's soup kitchen shelter and proves with an open checkbook that he can bribe the poor and buy the Army, which desolates Barbara.
From Time Magazine Archive
He once said, "How pitiful is the ambition which desolates the world with fire and sword for the purpose of conquest and fame, compared to making our neighbors and fellowmen happy!"
From George Washington by Courtenay, Calista McCabe
It clothes itself in mourning and darkens its streets, and desolates its homes, and bleeds its life drops slowly in its patient agony.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
