pathless
Example Sentences
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The business of banking, Willing wrote, “was a pathless wilderness, ground but little known to this side of the Atlantick. . . . All was to us a mystery.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
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
You know the path, but wander, thrilled, over the bare and pathless rock, as if it were solidified air and cloud.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
