wilderness

Example Sentences

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The stock spent years in the wilderness afterward, falling to as low as $1.50 in July 2022 from a 2017 closing high of $99.61.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Nature and the wilderness will continue to be the most satisfying and most reinvigorating way to spend our leisure time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Sometimes hungry villagers walk for more than three hours into the wilderness before locating the trees.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

But then, a little frustration at a cowardly lack of social etiquette is better than, say, a date abandoning you in the middle of a wilderness hike, i.e., the alpine divorce.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

After 78 days in the wilderness they arrived in Williamsburg.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen