wasteland

Since then, Basra War Cemetery has become a deserted wasteland, used by the locals for football or to dispose of rubbish.

They called the place La Ciénega, a corruption of an Indigenous word and an incongruous name — the swamp — in a desert wasteland.

The slopes along the coast had once been carpeted with grasses and flowers, but now they were a wasteland.

When you scan their rural town, a wasteland of Dollar General stores and fast food chains, most of their neighbors seem to have already faded away.

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.