21 examples of desolately in sentences

Och hone, och hone, machree!" exclaims the venerable woman, hanging desolately around the tree by her arms while her bonnet falls over her left ear: "I've heard that name threatened.

I choke with pain as I recognize my handsome lover desolately alone, striding with set face toward the lassoed pony.

My body shakes with weeping as I pray, Thinking on all I love that are not there, So desolately absent far away My Love and Friend, and my own land and home.

And when they could trust their footsteps they went desolately into the house together.

She threw herself on the ground, she cried and called on the Lord, and wandered around desolately until sunrise.

Without, the wind moaned desolately through the bare trees.

And each forgot in the dream so strange How desolately far Swept on each path, for who shall change The orbit of a star?

I'll never, never, never," said the patroness of Art desolately, "try to do any one good again!"

I watched it through a pair of glasses, seeking to verify my early conception of an icebergin the geographies of my grammar school days the pictures of icebergs always included a stranded polar bear, standing desolately upon one of the snowy crags.

The hoar antiquity of the place is increased by a wilderness of alders which grow up around the walls and amidst the stones, twisted, tangled, stunted, desolately old and yet renewing their youth, a true type of the scattered, bruised, and peeled, yet ineradicable Israel itself.

A dirty canary chirps desolately in a cage beside me.

After running two hundred yards to one of the great broken bazaar-portals, I looked back to see if I was followed: but all that space was desolately empty.

Harrisburg may be very pretty and interesting in fine weather, but it was a desolately dreary place to anticipate being snowed-up at in winter, although situated on the banks of the lovely Susquehana: accordingly, I asked mine host when the next train would pass.

She stood most desolately alone.

We went on and up and ever higher, like the youth in "Excelsior;" the beech and dwarf oak took the place of the pine, and at last we arrived at a cleared summit whose long brown grass waved desolately in the dim light of evening.

Long before five, a piteous wail ascended to heaven from fathers and husbands and wives and mothers, desolately mourning the dead in the streets of Caracas, La Guayra, Mérida, San Felipe, and Valencia.

Upon that they agreed to Mrs. Henniker's terms, and sitting down on one of the benches looked desolately into each others faces.

Day after day and night after night she had raised the drawbridge between her heart and memory, leaving the lonely thoughts to shiver desolately on the other side of the moat.

In the gray light, black lines of people moved desolately up and down, not allowed to congregate and apparently not wanting to remain in homes they were weary of.

Afterwards, sitting together desolately in the magnificent drawing-room, she became affectionately maternal.

He had returned to her, and he stood looking at her with those strangely keen eyes, almost as if he had never seen her before, she thought to herself desolately.

21 examples of  desolately  in sentences