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
It was no longer the fire-stricken wasteland he saw in the videos, but in fact quite green.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025
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
"I left him behind. In a barren, unreachable, godforsaken wasteland."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.