pathless

Example Sentences

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The 30-mile strenuous and pathless trek across mountainous terrain, rivers and boggy ground is part of the Cape Wrath Trail and is normally completed in three days.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

Mountaineering groups said the dotted line crossed "potentially fatal" steep, rocky and pathless terrain, while a suggested walking route for a different mountain, An Teallach, would lead people over a cliff.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2021

It may also leave you utterly lost, pathless and disoriented.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016

For Coleridge, clouds were emblems of freedom, as in his ode to France—"Ye Clouds! that far above me float and pause,/ Whose pathless march no mortal may control!"—or of poetic consciousness, as in "Dejection."

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2011

They were far beyond the borders of the Bree-land, out in the pathless wilderness, and drawing near to the Midgewater Marshes.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien