wasteland

Example Sentences

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It was a wasteland of corporate buzzwords, 4 a.m. wake-up routines and stories about overcoming workplace adversity with a little something called grit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Just five years ago, midtown Manhattan was a wasteland as the pandemic dominated life in a city that had seen some of the darkest times of Covid-19 only months earlier.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

Critics called the purchase 'Seward's Folly', arguing the land amounted to a frozen wasteland.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

Also, the designation “forest” seems generous: The gnarled and stripped trees look broken, suggesting an open wasteland instead of a battleground that could provide cover.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

To wish to make a life in that wasteland of rock and flame, you’d have to be a beast without a sense of beauty, hope, or joy.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin