How to Use dystopia in a Sentence

dystopia

noun
  • But as the episode unfolds, there’s an eerie sense of dystopia afoot.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • James Williams does not believe talk of dystopia is far-fetched.
    — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Phase two showed us that the trouble wasn't the coming dystopia.
    — Jordan Crucchiola, Wired News, 17 Apr. 2015
  • Duncan, what was your concept for this dystopia?
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
  • And for a long while in this pandemic dystopia, no one dared budge.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Seoul is a place that veers between utopia and dystopia with alarming speed.
    — Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
  • There are no vampires in this bleak dystopia — though one might be welcomed.
    — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
  • The real dystopia isn’t killer robots.
    — Erica Dhawan, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Some claimed this was proof that Great Britain had become a dystopia.
    — Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Who needs imagination when the dystopia is right in front of you?
    — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The punk-rock dystopia surrounded her from the outset.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • The episode knows that in the very near future, all sorts of factors will lead us into dystopia.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • Our visions of survival and dystopia were far flung or all consuming.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Will audiences buy tickets for a movie set in a dystopia that mirrors their own?
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Those who can find a bit of escapist relief in these on-screen dystopias are fortunate.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • They were strung out, seeking help, and fell into a confounding dystopia.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Look at the White House; in fiction, dystopia feels farther away, at least.
    — Hannah Berman august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
  • There’s just maybe this chance to create a bubble-corner-safe space within dystopia.
    — Laura Van Straaten, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2017
  • Online, though, commenters said the scene reminded them of a dystopia.
    — Miho Inada, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • Like that play, this latest work is set in a dystopia around the corner, in a world that at first glance seems much like our own.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Perhaps thinking of us all as migrants offers us a way out of this looming dystopia.
    — National Geographic, 17 July 2019
  • A lot of utopian thinking plays off the dystopia of our present reality.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Neal Shusterman zooms in on the razor-thin line between utopia and dystopia.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2020
  • But Connor imagines that our thirst for dystopias has only just begun.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • San Diego needs to invest in infrastructures, but not ones that lay the train tracks to dystopia.
    — Lilly Irani, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But while outbreaks of tech dystopias come and go, there’s something more virulent about the current strain.
    — Larry Downes, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
  • On top of that, some of the people that write these dystopias — not all of them — don’t really understand tech.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Oct. 2018
  • For these women, a dystopia is reality.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The scorching summer blasted Parisians off the streets and turned the city into an eerie dystopia of what may lie ahead.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The dystopia of 2020 requires something stronger than cute song-and-dance routines.
    — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2020

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