How to Use badland in a Sentence

badland

noun
  • That’s a good place to be in these badlands.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This standard has even encroached on the genre of fiction, like a stop sign installed in the badlands.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Its vast prairies, badlands, and river valleys are home to bison, wild horses, and prairie dogs.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Among the badlands terrain, these horses can be viewed from the park's South Unit scenic drive.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 17 June 2026
  • But areas with broad canyons in rimrock and badland country seldom get pressured by hunters.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Halsey might be welcoming fans back to the badlands, but that doesn’t mean people are allowed to have bad manners at their shows.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That is because of the wide-open spaces of the badlands and minimal light pollution.
    — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The dinosaur lived some 75 million years ago in what are now the badlands of northern Montana.
    — Traci Watson, USA TODAY, 9 May 2017
  • The badlands hug the river around us, creating a corridor of rock with nothing but sky overhead.
    — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The badlands hug the river around us, creating a corridor of rock with nothing but sky overhead.
    — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • There are desert badlands, frosty tundra, underwater temples, shipwrecks, lush caves teeming with life, and much more.
    — Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
  • So Schweitzer pushes on, walking briskly across the badlands in search of fossils, bits of protein, and, perhaps one day, acceptance.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 13 Sep. 2017
  • But reminders of human occupation do little to change the overwhelming sense of isolation in the badlands.
    — OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • In the badlands of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation is a trove of prehistoric fossils.
    — Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • At 88, the legendary artist, dressed in a black smock, was filmed walking through the eroded sculptural features of the badlands, her face furrowed by age, her eyes still blazing.
    — John Burnett, NPR, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The South Unit's badlands, deep-cut canyons, and sandy hoodoos allow modern explorers to see the allure of a wild North Dakota.
    — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
  • California’s state park system offers 3,000 miles of trail and terrain from beaches to badlands, Joshua trees and more.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Hunt Broken Country The best winter range is often rumpled badlands adjacent to hay and grainfields.
    — Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019
  • These two men, accompanied by teams of more-or-less willing students, stuck out every summer for the badlands of the Wild West in search of dinosaur fossils.
    — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2017
  • The widespread badlands of the modern Bighorn Basin expose remarkably fossil-rich sediments.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Contrary to the arid badlands of Ledi-Geraru today, millions of years ago, the area was a lush, vegetated landscape with rivers and shallow lakes.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Between the glowing colors of the Painted Hills, the strange prehistoric fossils found underground and the blue badlands that emerge from the desert, this is a place like no other.
    — oregonlive, 8 June 2023
  • While the combination of old-growth, lava rock and mountain views makes the badlands a place of true desert beauty, the human touches add another dimension, bringing focus to the present.
    — OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The badlands of Anza-Borrego are a tangle of paths less traveled leading to secrets unanswered and always leaving you with a desire to discover more.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Photos of its badlands and prairies enchanted me, and the story of Teddy Roosevelt's sojourn there following the deaths of his wife and mother on the same day intrigued me.
    — Beth J. Harpaz, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
  • The byway rambles through grassland and the tan-colored badlands, with pullouts that feature views of rock outcroppings and canyons and the Missouri River aglow with cottonwoods.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
  • What started out with the finding of curious fossils from the badlands of Nebraska led to a detailed reconstruction of an ancient ecosystem and the lives of some of its inhabitants.
    — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • However, deep in the Patagonia badlands of Argentina, one fossil has been undoing decades of assumptions about this part of snake evolution.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Amidst its many fossils, visitors can also immerse themselves in the rich beauty of contemporary Canada, with plenty of badland vistas and indigenous fauna to spot along each trail.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The surrounding badlands provide the perfect habitat for a wealth of cactus species, while mammals span from mule deer to the pronghorn, an antelope-like animal that’s distantly related to modern-day giraffes.
    — Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'badland.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: