wasteland

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waste·land | \ ˈwāst-ˌland

also -lənd \

Definition of wasteland

1 : barren or uncultivated land a desert wasteland

2 : an ugly often devastated or barely inhabitable place or area

3 : something (such as a way of life) that is spiritually and emotionally arid and unsatisfying

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Examples of wasteland in a Sentence

The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial wasteland. That part of the country is a cultural wasteland. the vast wasteland of television

Recent Examples on the Web The former storage wasteland is now a cozy, functional office with a mod, masculine vibe. — BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2021 The city has taken on the appearance of a wasteland, with garbage piling up and business districts empty. — John Otis And Juan Forero, WSJ, 12 May 2021 The back half of the year, from September onward, is a wasteland. — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 29 May 2021 The current graphics card landscape may be a barren wasteland, but there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon. — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 18 May 2021 The period between the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt was not a historical wasteland punctuated only by Reconstruction and racial tension, railroads and the accumulation of great riches. — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021 Weeks later, vast stretches of the city were still a wasteland. — Delphine Schrank, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2021 At the dead end that the Wild keeps running into during the playoffs is a wasteland of offenses gone bad. — Sarah Mclellan, Star Tribune, 15 May 2021 Tubby humans in personal mobility vehicles leaving planet Earth on a luxury spaceship as robots like WALL-E clean up the industrial wasteland. — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 16 May 2021

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