wasteland

Example Sentences

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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

They’ve been doing covert “crawls” with the goal of locating and destroying Vecna before he turns the town, then the world, into an oozy wasteland.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 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

Critics called the purchase 'Seward's Folly', arguing the land amounted to a frozen wasteland.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025

The great yellow wasteland lay dim and milky in the moonlight as the Big Friendly Giant went galloping across it.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl