has desolated
- present perfect of desolate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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You know Onontio, the famous chieftain of Quebec; you know that he is the terror of the Iroquois, his mere name makes them tremble since he has desolated their country and burned their villages.
From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Leblond de Brumath, Adrien
The contrast was awful between the island looking so lovely in the evening light, and this horrid deed which has desolated it.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
It has desolated our native land 1 It has made barren our fairest fields!
From Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries by Hogan, William
At present I am too preoccupied by the calamity that has desolated my hearth.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
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 Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore
