wasteland

Example Sentences

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She said rubbish was often dumped directly outside her door, on nearby steps and on surrounding wasteland, blocking drains and creating serious health risks.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 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

Rain said television was a vast wasteland that lowered our standards until we couldn’t tell the difference between bad and good.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman