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How to use wasteland in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Wasteland means a place with no remaining resources; a desert. Example: “Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.”

Examples of wasteland by meaning

nounA place with no remaining resources; a desert.

  • Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

nounAny barren or uninteresting place.

  • After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
  • I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest

nounA devastated, uninhabitable area.

  • Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 703
  • How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?2014, Randall Munroe, anonymous quotee, “Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7”, in What If?, New York, New York...

nounUnused land.

  • Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.2023 September 20, “National Rail Awards 2023”, in RAIL, page 82

More sentences with wasteland

  • The scarified wasteland looked like a battle had been fought there — which, in fact, it had.From the entry scarified
  • There, he was loudly ranting about a commercial wasteland he called the “United States of Generica.”1994 November 3, Amy Satterthwaite, “In Their Own Words”, in The Free Lance-Star. From the entry Generica
  • The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.1993, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection, page lxxix. From the entry blightscape
  • Liu cursed the lifeless wasteland around them.2012 October 20, “Staring at the sun from the roof of the world”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on…. From the entry Ali
  • No mansmell of smoke or byre or farmstead tainted it, blowing clear across miles beyond miles of wastelands.2011, C.L. Moore, Northwest of Earth, →ISBN. From the entry unhumanity
  • The thought of vengeance helped him survive the weeks he spent wandering aimlessly about a desert wasteland bristling with mandacarus.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 70. From the entry mandacaru
  • Yes, the water has returned, along with giant earth-eating creatures boring holes far below, linking wisdoms of wombats with wastelands of Winthers.2020, Graham Jackson, The7th Victim, page 160. From the entry wisdom
  • Anyone who paused for a moment in this wasteland would hear the everlasting, clump, clump, clump; clump, clumper, clumper-clump of heavy boots on raised boards.2014, Michael Glover, The Fateful Battle Line, page 133. From the entry clumper
  • In a long tracking shot at the start of the film, a feral cat prowls this wasteland until it is felled by a slow-motion arrow.2010 January 25, Richard Corliss, “American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli”, in Time. From the entry tracking shot
  • The car did not give us a minute's trouble throughout the trip — up hill, down dale, across uncharted wastelands between super highways.1980 December 6, Nancy Walker, “Toodle-Oo, Doodle”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 12. From the entry up hill and down dale
  • The reclamation project at Tunghsihu in Wuhan suburb is the largest wasteland reclamation project in Hupeh to be carried out this winter and next spring.1962, Robert Carin, State Farms in Communist China, 1947-1961, →OCLC, page 215. From the entry Tunghsihu
  • The barghest is a fiend that is attached to a particular place, more often than not an isolated piece of land, a wooded area, cloughs or wasteland.2016, Alexander L. Kaufman, “‘And Many Oþer Diuerse Tokens …’: Portents and Wonders in ‘Warkworth’s’ Chronicle”, in Jaclyn Rajsic, Erik…. From the entry barghest
  • By the early twentieth century, however, a form of dog racing held in 'flapping tracks' was a common pastime in the wastelands near working-class areas of industrial cities.2009, Mark Clapson, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Twentieth Century, page 332. From the entry flapping
  • Near the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Yonghua, one of Jheng Cheng-gong’s (Koxinga) chief counselors, was stationed here, and proceeded to cultivate the wastelands and turn them into farmland.2020 November 6, “History”, in Lioujia District Office, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022. From the entry Lioujia

Meaning of wasteland

  1. noun A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
  2. noun Any barren or uninteresting place.
  3. noun A devastated, uninhabitable area.

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Questions about wasteland in a sentence

How do you use wasteland in a sentence?
Wasteland is used as a noun. For example: “Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.”
What is a short sentence with wasteland?
“Liu cursed the lifeless wasteland around them.”
What does wasteland mean?
Wasteland means a place with no remaining resources; a desert.

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