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.
• Is a decade of wasteland the price to pay for a few seasons in the sun?
  — Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Is 20 years of wasteland the price to pay for three seasons in the sun?
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• The Dry is all about that: The river has dried up and is now just a wasteland.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 23 July 2021
• The site is a wasteland now, known for corrupting the minds of Boomers.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 24 May 2022
• The fire left a barren wasteland and nothing on the ground, Schreiber said.
  — Jack Dura, Twin Cities, 7 Oct. 2024
• 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
• There's no bad time to release a movie The early part of the year is a wasteland at the theaters.
  — Stephanie Merry, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• At the time, Lincecum’s year seemed like a gem in a wasteland of lost seasons.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2022
• If that part of your kitchen is like mine, it’s a wasteland under there.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Jan. 2023
• Weeks later, vast stretches of the city were still a wasteland.
  — Delphine Schrank, The New York Review of Books, 17 Mar. 2021
• In effect, Argentina’s strength is all in one place; too much of the rest of the team is a wasteland.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• The back half of the year, from September onward, is a wasteland.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 29 May 2021
• This place, in my view, was more like wasteland than a place with very good nature.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• But if the food aisle is a battlefield, the dry goods section is a wasteland.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2020
• The war has reduced many cities and towns to a wasteland of rubble and human bone meal.
  — Ben Wederman, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
• At that time, the produce section looked like a wasteland.
  — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• He’s done too much good here to be shipped to a football wasteland, in my opinion.
  — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 24 Dec. 2017
• My inbox is a wasteland of free trials canceled just in the nick of time.
  — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, 23 July 2019
• What were once blocks of apartments there are now piles of rubble amid a wasteland of dunes.
  — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• Emile Francis came to New York and found a hockey wasteland.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• Most of Oman is desert, but the golden corduroy bowl of the Wahiba Sands feels like a true wasteland movie set.
  — Sarah Walton, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• Woman even chose to live on her own in the wasteland instead of staying in the bunker with Daughter.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, refinery29.com, 10 June 2019
• When television was first popular in the 1960’s in the US, it was called a vast wasteland.
  — Theodore Schleifer, Recode, 14 Apr. 2018
• Auburn Football was a wasteland, a desert, when Coach Jordan came back as head coach in 1951.
  — Giana Han, al, 7 Feb. 2020
• August is a wasteland, at least in terms of movies guaranteed to draw a crowd.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 10 Aug. 2022
• Their objective is to wear down the morale of the Ukrainian people and to create a wasteland.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 5 May 2022
• Entire families have been erased, with many neighborhoods reduced to wastelands of thick sewage pools.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
• Retail almost seems like a wasteland except for Walmart and perhaps Club name Costco .
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024