wilderness

Example Sentences

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Fewer can afford much else, let alone purchase hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

The two had been 14 hours into the Inuvik Weekend Warrior Fat Bike Challenge - a three-day cycle across frozen rivers, remote highways and Canada's Arctic wilderness - when they were forced to withdraw.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Small-caps have been in the wilderness for over 15 years, points out Colas, DataTrek’s co-founder.

From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026

As an X-file from an earlier era, when fringe theories about UFOs, crop circles or the Loch Ness monster were quarantined as tabloid fodder, the lore around the wilderness footage seems quaint by today’s standards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

For over two decades, Rondon, now forty-eight and the commander of Brazil’s Telegraphic Commission, explored and mapped the “wild, western wilderness of Brazil.”

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple