How to Use wasteland in a Sentence

wasteland

noun
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  • That part of the country is a cultural wasteland.
  • The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial wasteland.
  • The Dry is all about that: The river has dried up and is now just a wasteland.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 July 2021
  • The site is a wasteland now, known for corrupting the minds of Boomers.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
  • The game helped inspires some details, right down to the amount of garbage that would be strewn across the wasteland.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • At the time, Lincecum’s year seemed like a gem in a wasteland of lost seasons.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
  • If that part of your kitchen is like mine, it’s a wasteland under there.
    — Aaron Hutcherson, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Weeks later, vast stretches of the city were still a wasteland.
    — Delphine Schrank, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2021
  • In effect, Argentina’s strength is all in one place; too much of the rest of the team is a wasteland.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • The back half of the year, from September onward, is a wasteland.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 29 May 2021
  • This place, in my view, was more like wasteland than a place with very good nature.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • But if the food aisle is a battlefield, the dry goods section is a wasteland.
    — Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2020
  • The war has reduced many cities and towns to a wasteland of rubble and human bone meal.
    — Ben Wederman, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • At that time, the produce section looked like a wasteland.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • My inbox is a wasteland of free trials canceled just in the nick of time.
    — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 23 July 2019
  • What were once blocks of apartments there are now piles of rubble amid a wasteland of dunes.
    — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Emile Francis came to New York and found a hockey wasteland.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Most of Oman is desert, but the golden corduroy bowl of the Wahiba Sands feels like a true wasteland movie set.
    — Sarah Walton, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Woman even chose to live on her own in the wasteland instead of staying in the bunker with Daughter.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019
  • When television was first popular in the 1960’s in the US, it was called a vast wasteland.
    — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Auburn Football was a wasteland, a desert, when Coach Jordan came back as head coach in 1951.
    — Giana Han, al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • August is a wasteland, at least in terms of movies guaranteed to draw a crowd.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Their objective is to wear down the morale of the Ukrainian people and to create a wasteland.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 5 May 2022
  • Miraceti represents the boat with spicy woods, Karst the shore with marine coastal accords, and Erémia the wasteland with zesty, musky and mossy notes.
    — Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Six years after the catastrophe, the core of the town remains a wasteland, with much of the once-vibrant downtown a weed lot.
    — Ian Austen, New York Times, 16 July 2019
  • Less than 100 years ago, it was turned into a treeless wasteland.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • In the middle of a nuclear wasteland months and months after Morgan did the deed.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Tight end has been a wasteland this season and Burton has at least five targets in three straight games.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Many worried that big tech would transform the area into a commercialized wasteland.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Like Lopez, Riordan sees deserts not as wastelands but as laboratories for food.
    — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024

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