wasteland
Example Sentences
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Shujaiya today is a flat wasteland of rubble.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026
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
Before she reached the supermarket she cut across a fence into some wasteland and along an old drive, then crawled under a hedge.
From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.