desolates
- present tense form of desolate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
The sudden death of Leontes' young son desolates him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It separates families; it desolates homes; it makes wanderers on the face of the earth of those who are allured to it.
From Watch Yourself Go By by Warden, Ben W.
You have no idea of the ennui that desolates the hemispheres.
From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence
