desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
are desolating
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present progressiveof desolate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Why does He not send the angels of whom my mother told me when a child, and bid them stand between the armies that are desolating thousands of hearts like mine?
From His Sombre Rivals by Edward Payson Roe
On the other side of the Loire, bands are desolating the department of Morbihan, and some parts of those of Isle and Vilaine, the Coasts of the North, and Sarthe.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
But these new great roads are desolating, more desolating than all the ruins in the world.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
What will this do to compensate for its giant evils which are desolating our land?
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
But I lacked the courage and strength, or rather my reason told me how insane such an undertaking would be in the midst of the civil wars that are desolating our unhappy country.
From The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess by Eugène Sue
