How to Use badland in a Sentence

badland

noun

• Junipers aside, the main draw at the badlands are the rocks.
  — OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• The dinosaur lived some 75 million years ago in what are now the badlands of northern Montana.
  — Traci Watson, USA TODAY, 9 May 2017
• It’s full of epic landscapes: tall forests, snowy mountains, rugged badlands, and plenty of open roads.
  — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Nov. 2019
• Get a sense of the three-million-acre playground by first stopping at Zabriskie Point, along 190, to take in the badlands and salt flats that stretch toward the impressive Panamint Mountains.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 25 Mar. 2023
• The badlands hug the river around us, creating a corridor of rock with nothing but sky overhead.
  — Kristina A. Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
• 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 areas with broad canyons in rimrock and badland country seldom get pressured by hunters.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 19 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Schiano has the credentials and the track record to make Rutgers competitive, which would be a start for a program that has been stuck in the Big Ten badlands since its second year in the conference.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2019
• Still, Masten Space Systems is undermanned and underfunded, a ragtag bunch out in the desert, drilling and hammering and soldering in their small badlands garage down the block from the rich folk.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 14 Oct. 2015
• But reminders of human occupation do little to change the overwhelming sense of isolation in the badlands.
  — OregonLive.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• Hunt Broken Country The best winter range is often rumpled badlands adjacent to hay and grainfields.
  — Outdoor Life, 19 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Their story, first recounted to me by a crowd of teenage boys in Bandiagara, was one of refuge taken in these badlands from expanding empires to the north and south, both of which sought to forcibly convert them to Islam.
  — Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• America does hope to maintain its outpost at Tanf, in the badlands of south-east Syria, which is meant (rather improbably) to constrain Iranian influence in the region.
  — The Economist, 14 Oct. 2019
• In some areas, such as the state’s badlands, the chemicals were found in deer where there’s little agriculture, raising the possibility that the chemicals are drifting over large distances.
  — Dave Orrick, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2019
• The proposal to open the land for business is expected to energize a legal fight over the land, which includes badlands, slot canyons, and other features sacred to Native American nations.
  — Harold Maass, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020
• One of the most unusual fossils ever to be found are strange tall structures recovered across Nebraska, primarily in the state’s northwestern badlands and in neighboring parts of Wyoming.
  — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
• Officials say smuggling has long been a factor in Baluchistan, aided by the province’s badland borders with Iran and Afghanistan, and driven by deep poverty and unemployment among residents.
  — SFChronicle.com, 13 Dec. 2019
• For six weeks in the coming winter of 1886, the hunters returned to their miserable dugout after forays into the adjacent badlands, coming back each night with one or two buffalo specimens, along with mule deer and pronghorn antelope.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
• Winnipeg is in the province of Manitoba (known for its northern polar bear population), not Alberta (known for badlands, glaciers and vast coniferous forests).
  — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2019
• The expanses of windswept badlands, narrow slot canyons and towering rock formations are sacred to several Native American nations and prized by scientists and outdoor enthusiasts.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Feb. 2020
• The expanses of windswept badlands, narrow slot canyons, and towering rock formations are sacred to several Native American nations and prized by scientists and outdoor enthusiasts.
  — Sarah Kaplan, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2020
• Howley’s exploration of privacy and digital surveillance eventually lands her in the badlands of conspiracy theorists and QAnon.
  — The New York Times Books Staff, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Makoshika State Park is a site particularly worth visiting, characterized by badland formations and dinosaur fossils.
  — Ali Wunderman, Star Tribune, 21 May 2021

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024