wasteland

Example Sentences

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Far from the “wastelands” where these wading birds lived, urban women adorned their hats with showy feathers as marks of status.

From The Wall Street Journal

In all that wasteland, I saw one human being, an old woman poking at a heap of bricks.

From Literature

Since that day, I’ve left my footprints in many lands: the frozen wastelands of the Arctic, the bush country of Old Mexico, and the steaming jungles of Yucatán.

From Literature

“A party out of power usually looks for electable candidates because they don’t want to stay in the wasteland.”

From Salon

Bare-knuckle is the oldest form of boxing but became associated with unlicensed fights on wastelands after The Marquess of Queensberry rules were introduced in 1867, which insisted on gloves.

From BBC