wilderness
Example Sentences
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“An eleven-year-old boy staying with folks who are practically strangers out there in the wilderness?”
From Literature
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Customs and Border Protection had announced plans to finish sealing off all 140 miles of the California-Mexico border, including in this remote wilderness.
From Los Angeles Times
The two talked about the value of carrying a weapon into the wilderness.
The day after she and her husband, Jack, sculpt the figure of a child out of snow, an ethereal waif emerges from the wilderness.
He was surrounded by a cloud of steam where his own tears met his hot body: like a tiny kettle in the wilderness.
From Literature
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