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

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

The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between.

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