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

The 40-year-old vet, who lives at Gladhouse Reservoir, Midlothian, had to navigate through extreme and often pathless terrain, continuing to run through the night.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024

It may also leave you utterly lost, pathless and disoriented.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016

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

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