badlands

Example Sentences

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"The badlands in Wyoming where the finds were made is a unique 'mummy zone' that has more surprises in store from fossils collected over years of visits by teams of university undergrads."

From Science Daily

Last year’s flash floods have closed many roads in the north of the park, though the southern half, where most of its icons are — including salt flats, sand dunes and striated badlands — remains open.

From New York Times

In 1995, it pledged allegiance to the Taliban, and was involved in managing affairs along the badlands of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

From Los Angeles Times

When I was a kid there, the place was still sort of the badlands of Los Angeles — a potential pitstop for city and beach town dwellers on their drive through the desert to Las Vegas.

From The Verge

But it is also routine for civilian men to be armed in the kinds of lawless badlands and failed states for which the rules are written.

From New York Times