pathless

Example Sentences

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His route was pathless, boggy and extremely difficult.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2021

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

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

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