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

His route was pathless, boggy and extremely difficult.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2021

Had it come out so automatically, without the usual torments, as if channeled not by the ghost of a dead American writer but by the ghost of my own failed and pathless younger self?

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2018

Clearly, stalking delivers them the present moment—the lawless wild greenery and pathless reality of the Zone—that makes them, if only for a short while, masters of their destinies.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2014

They soon found that it was impossible to make their way along the crest of the Morgai, or anywhere along its higher levels, pathless as they were and scored with deep ghylls.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien