desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
had desolated
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past perfectof desolate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The Famine in Behar A continued drought in Behar was at this time causing grave fears of a famine, such as from time to time had desolated various parts of India.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
Bulgaria was made an independent principality, and the Turks, as Gladstone had demanded, "one and all, bag and baggage, cleared out from the province they had desolated and profaned."
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Walter Lyon Blease
To some one of the hundred or more plantations and plantation homes that the far-reaching crevasse had desolated?
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable
He also informed the Pilgrims that, four years before their arrival, a terrible plague had desolated the coast, and that the tribe occupying the region upon which they were settled had been utterly annihilated.
From King Philip Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
A dreadful pestilence, some years before, had desolated the Empire; and the pagans seem to have been impressed with the conviction that the new religion had provoked the visitation.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
