wilderness

Example Sentences

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Ivan Toney, who has spent almost a year in the international wilderness and now plays his club football in Saudi Arabia, has also not given up hope of making the squad.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

“Tracker” is primarily set in the wilderness, making the move to California a fresh opportunity for the production to explore diverse landscapes for its backdrop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The painter Frederic Edwin Church would make detailed sketches of plants that might appear in his spectacular, worshipful paintings of the wilderness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Expectations were insanely high for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale concert after a few years he spent in the pop-star wilderness recovering from various health ailments of both the physical and mental variety.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Tall and lean with salt-and-pepper hair and a handlebar mustache, at first glance forty-eight-year-old Cherrie didn’t necessarily look like someone who had spent the last twenty-five years in the South American wilderness.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple