How to use wilderness in a sentence

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• It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town.From the entry one-horse town
• His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness.From the entry survival
• In the wilderness, a brimmed hat will ward off heat stroke for a while.From the entry brimmed
• The cavalry messenger dismounted after his moon blindness made it unsafe to ride on through the wilderness.From the entry moon blindness
• Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.From the entry adulthood
• In Judeo-Christian tradition, the Israelites fled bondage at the hands of the Egyptians, only to wander in the wilderness for the next four decades.From the entry bondage
• Every year, people disappear into the wilderness and are never seen alive again.2022 September 12, Andy Zahn, “I became a cyborg backpacker, and it completely changed my hiking experience”, in Digital Trends. From the entry waffle-stomp
• Hired by their parents, these people bring them, usually by plane, to the wilderness program.[2016 October 20, Laura Collins-Hughes, “Therapy Becomes Theater in 'Wilderness'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry gooning
• Outdoorsy colleges are frequently located close to national parks, wilderness areas, and ski resorts.2015, Janet Marthers, Paul Marthers, Follow Your Interests to Find the Right College, Tucson, Ariz.: Wheatmark, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry outdoorsy
• The nation was a mess environmentally, and only a few voices in the wilderness were paying heed.2015 April 16, David Rutter, "Earth Day lets us remember who owns the environment," Chicago Tribune (retrieved 29 April 2015). From the entry voice in the wilderness
• As for escaping, there were eight hundred miles of dry wilderness between the ranchería and civilization.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 98. From the entry rancheria
• The wilderness testings of Jesus prepare him for ministry in which such temptations and shortcuts will recur.2011, Emerson B. Powery, Immersion Bible Studies: Luke. From the entry testing
• Before him, trackless wilderness extended for many leagues before lapping against the outbuildings of some village.2008, Christopher Paolini, “Rider and Ra'zac”, in Brisingr, page 70. From the entry league
• We backpacked for ten days in total wilderness in the as yet unscathed and untrekked Canyonlands.2008, Laird Christensen, Hal Crimmel, Teaching about Place: Learning from the Land, page 22. From the entry untrekked
• Inholders, even those in wilderness areas, are guaranteed " reasonable access " to their properties.1995 Jan/Feb, Bill Sherwonit, “Striking a Balance”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 69, number 1/2, page 26. From the entry inholder
• On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.1994, Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value. From the entry despoilment
• A leader without committed followers is an unheard voice in the wilderness.1994 May 9, John Elson, “Books: Following the Leaders”, in Time, retrieved 28 Apr 2015. From the entry voice in the wilderness
• In addition to trail running, there is ultra running, wilderness running, mountain running and orienteering.1993 June 18, Ad Crable, “Running wild”, in Lancaster New Era. From the entry fastpacking
• The Lone Ranger is always alone in a wilderness he does not quite call home.1992, M. Annette Jaimes, The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance, page 428. From the entry lone ranger
• She matched wits with the wilderness, met claw and fang with horns and cowsense.1975, Orville K. Sweet, Birth of a Breed: The History of Polled Herefords, page 2. From the entry cowsense
• The country was no longer plain-land, but an arboreous wilderness interspersed with small fields and fruit orchards.1974, Richard Adams, Shardik, New York: Simon and Schuster, Book 4, Chapter 35, p. 329. From the entry arboreous
• This track led to the Roman Catholic Mission about seven miles off in the wilderness.1962, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook. From the entry ruttily
• But even she was forced to confess that nothing was astir in the mossy wilderness.1925, John Buchan, John Macnab, page 100. From the entry knobber
• Its sad gray-green were in the living wilderness like a monument to death.1923, Joel Townsley Rogers, Weird Tales, Hark! The Rattle!. From the entry raff
• Th' fairways are a' rough an' full' o' holes an' th' rough is a haggy wilderness.1923, The Judge, page 14. From the entry haggy
• A great day in the wilderness, a joy and a delight.1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, Book 1, Ch.3, at p.22. From the entry calf
• Chicago was simply a wilderness through which one had to find one's way.1915 October, Willa Sibert Cather, chapter V, in The Song of the Lark, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC…. From the entry briskness
• They were wagers of warfare against the wilderness and the Indians, and founders of families and towns.1912, Pocumtack Valley Memorial Association, History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, page 65. From the entry wager
• Out there, in the heart of unreclaimed wilderness, they had surely witnessed something crudely and essentially primitive.1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo. From the entry unreclaimed
• The strongest sheep can be the "lostest" because of its power to go farthest into the wilderness.1906 September, The Sunday School Journal and Bible Student's Magazine, volume 38, number 9, page 675. From the entry lostest
• Mother of God! but we are well met here, in this wilderness, among the savages.1902, Emerson Hough, The Mississippi Bubble, →ISBN, pages 280–281. From the entry well met
• I could add and subtract and multiply and divide, but I entered the wilderness when words became equations.2022 August 7, Alec Wilkinson, “Could learning algebra in my 60s make me smarter?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Mar…. From the entry add
• The novelty of a wilderness winter wore off.2004, Lois Olson, Meeting Him in the Wilderness: A True Story of Adventure and Faith, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry cabin fever
• No reputable scientist would even talk to him about a man-like ape (or ape-like man) roaming the American wilderness.1974 September 8, Penelope McPhee, “man against myth: the search for Bigfoot”, in The Spokesman-Review Sunday Magazine, page 14, column 4. From the entry Bigfootology
• He will prefer the pelican in the wilderness.1964, G. K. Chesterton, The Spice of Life and Other Essays: The Soul in Every Legend. From the entry parrothouse
• Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 1. From the entry girdle
• In a country so vast as Canada, nothing but the railway could possibly save it from remaining a trackless, undeveloped wilderness.1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada’s Transcontinental Routes”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 127. From the entry trackless
• Although acutely conscious of living in a 'wilderness,' they stoutheartedly refused to yield an inch to pioneer prejudices or frontier values.1935, Samuel Eliot Morison, The Founding of Harvard College, →ISBN, pages 4–5. From the entry stoutheartedly
• I would not exchange it for a wilderness of schoolmasters.1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading. From the entry ablaut

Meaning of wilderness

1. noun Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
2. noun A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
3. noun An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

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How do you use wilderness in a sentence?

Wilderness is used as a noun. For example: “It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town.”

What is a short sentence with wilderness?

“Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.”

What does wilderness mean?

Wilderness means uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.