How to Use wasteland in a Sentence

wasteland

noun
  • That part of the country is a cultural wasteland.
  • The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial wasteland.
  • But there are green shoots amid the wasteland.
    — Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Is a decade of wasteland the price to pay for a few seasons in the sun?
    — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The library looked like a wasteland.
    — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 14 Jan. 2026
  • This place, in my view, was more like wasteland than a place with very good nature.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Lots of critics looked down at the medium as the great wasteland.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Weeks later, vast stretches of the city were still a wasteland.
    — Delphine Schrank, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Is 20 years of wasteland the price to pay for three seasons in the sun?
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Alas, things do notlook great for the wasteland’s favorite short king.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2026
  • What were once blocks of apartments there are now piles of rubble amid a wasteland of dunes.
    — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Gaza is, at the moment, a rubbled wasteland.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2026
  • My inbox is a wasteland of free trials canceled just in the nick of time.
    — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 23 July 2019
  • But if the food aisle is a battlefield, the dry goods section is a wasteland.
    — Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2020
  • August is a wasteland, at least in terms of movies guaranteed to draw a crowd.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The war has reduced many cities and towns to a wasteland of rubble and human bone meal.
    — Ben Wederman, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The site is a wasteland now, known for corrupting the minds of Boomers.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
  • Yet this stark environment is far more than a frozen wasteland.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The fire left a barren wasteland and nothing on the ground, Schreiber said.
    — Jack Dura, Twin Cities, 7 Oct. 2024
  • At the time, Lincecum’s year seemed like a gem in a wasteland of lost seasons.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The game helped inspires some details, right down to the amount of garbage that would be strewn across the wasteland.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Then came the internet, which would make the library a wasteland.
    — Ann Kirschner, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The formula dries on your lips, but doesn't leave them feeling like a desert wasteland.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 14 Aug. 2016
  • But that was more than a month ago, and pop has turned back into a dry, depressing wasteland.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The charming wasteland with its bright, twisted sense of humor.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But they'll not be allowed to turn our capital into a wasteland for the world to see.
    — Michel Martin, NPR, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Less than 100 years ago, it was turned into a treeless wasteland.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The back half of the year, from September onward, is a wasteland.
    — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 29 May 2021
  • She's seen that the wasteland is a very difficult place, full of suffering.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Today, the city is home to four wetland parks that look nothing like the wastelands there before.
    — Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2025

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