desolate
adjective
barren or laid waste; devastated.
has desolated
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present perfectof desolate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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We have said that he has desolated countries by the same means that plagues of his description have produced similar desolations.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
“Let him eat,” he said, “the gold for which he has desolated the world, and condemned so many to die of hunger.”
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
It has desolated the fairest portions of our land, "until the wolf long since driven back by the march of civilization returns after the lapse of a hundred years and howls amidst its ruins."
From Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
She has not left her room for two days, a circumstance that has desolated me; it prevented me from presenting to her my homage upon her return from Mezlean.
From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Eug?ne Sue
This great respek for the dramy has grown with my hair, and since this high old war has desolated the dramy, my buzzom has been nothing else but a wilderness of pangs.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
