desolates
- present tense form of desolate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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The sudden death of Leontes' young son desolates him.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Fatal for us that beauty's torturing view, Living or dead alike which desolates our peace.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
"Conscience desolates the mind, when it deprives it of its proper power and tranquillity, and introduces into it perpetual disquietude."
From Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War by Watson, John Selby
