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 Below, at the leading edge of a vast wasteland, was its aftermath: a dozen boats, rusted umber, all that remained of the 100-strong fishing fleet, which had been dragged here from the spots where they were marooned as the sea ebbed away. — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 Below, at the leading edge of a vast wasteland, was its aftermath: a dozen boats, rusted umber, all that remained of the 100-strong fishing fleet, which had been dragged here from the spots where they were marooned as the sea ebbed away. — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022 Something called the Dust Bowl — a years long drought punctuated by sprawling dust storms that transformed parts of the Plains into a wasteland. — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 15 July 2022 Lincoln and Caddy got in early when the Navigator and Escalade, respectively, rescued their parent brands from a wasteland of uninspiring sedans in the late ‘90s. — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2022 This is a far cry from the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Fallout or the high fantasy world of The Elder Scrolls. — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 12 May 2022 That's not a great situation, as you're also trapped on a disabled ship in a snowy wasteland. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 Apr. 2022 And then there's Hopper (David Harbour), who's been captured by the Russians and forced into manual labor in the brutal wasteland of Kamchatka. — Nick Romano, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022 Viggo Mortensen starred as the unnamed Man who's struggling to take care of his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in the bleak wasteland that was once America. — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 17 June 2022 See More

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