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

McCarthy, addressing ProPublica on Substack, wrote: “You point to various online guides that offer what could be considered dangerous dosing instructions. We agree, the internet is a terrifying wasteland of misinformation and disinformation.”

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2025

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

‘We could all set out on summer evenings, recalling Honest Abe. That park we got now is just wasteland the Wabash Railroad didn’t want.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck