How to Use dystopian in a Sentence

dystopian

adjective
  • What, all this too dystopian for you?
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Again, there’s more meat on this dystopian bone.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Moira emerges from the dystopian saga with a new lease on life.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
  • The dystopian cast of this tale was a result of my prompt.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
  • There was something so dystopian about it.
    — Terry Gross, NPR, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In it, a pre-Columbian past is mixed with a dystopian future.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 29 July 2025
  • During Covid, the world felt numb and dystopian.
    — Kim Gordon, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But when better to talk about utopian ideas than in dystopian times?
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025
  • These are dystopian regimes that are like the backdrop of these stories.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Everyone was telling me to do a dystopian thing.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • This dystopian novel is like that but scarier.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The film will be set in a dystopian future, where the elite harvest clones for spare parts.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 May 2025
  • This is where the dystopian part of the vision becomes hard to dismiss.
    — Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 17 June 2025
  • The film is about a dystopian future where women are no longer able to have babies.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The dystopian gloom seems to have infected the new Eden.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This is not the intro to a dystopian sci-fi novel but present-day Britain.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 18 July 2022
  • City garages can feel dystopian in the best of times, especially late at night.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The film depicts a dark, violent, dystopian view of the world.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Netflix is bringing a classic dystopian tale to the small screen.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The ground was laid for an already dystopian 2026.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Garbage mounds piled high on sidewalks and spilled into the streets like some dystopian nightmare.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
  • This dystopian cyberpunk tale feels eerily close to the present.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Israel’s tactics in south Lebanon might seem dystopian.
    — Justin Salhani, The Dial, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Obviously, it’s played out in a more dystopian way.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • For the ships no company wants to purchase, the ending is a bit more dystopian.
    — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
  • Do you at all worry that someone could be put off by the dystopian feel of Hungry?
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
  • When dystopian fiction gets a little too real.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Oct. 2025
  • When dystopian fiction gets a little too real.
    — Lit Hub Daily, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Joey King is breaking beauty norms in the dystopian film Uglies.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Other rewards have taken a more dystopian turn.
    — T.m. Brown, CNN Money, 12 June 2026

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