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"Wasteland" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Over the next fifteen years, architects, planners and community developers will work together to transform 346 acres of industrial wasteland into 6,500 homes, two shopping centres, a marina, a primary school and college, and parkland.
The whole island was a wasteland of ice, whipped by freezing storms, and bleached skeletons were the only signs of the life that had once been there.
The stark contrast between, say, the success of the Republic of Korea and the wasteland of North Korea shows that central, planned control of the economy is a dead end.
The wasteland is not a hospitable place.
Even though, in the capitalist system, I made money, I don't really believe in it. I still believe, as I did in high school, in some form of communism. A society that primarily worries about money is a dysfunctional society. All people need is decent health care, decent housing, decent transportation, decent education, decent food, decent whatever, etc. We don't need extravagance. Where I live, a house typically costs a million dollars or more. Why does it cost so much, here on grey-pavement parking-lot wasteland, the Flat Mountain, Lulu Island? The houses aren't even reinforced concrete structures as in Asia, but flimsy gyprock, wood, etc. Lulu Island isn't as if a suburb of Barcelona or something posh and cultural. Why do we have to worry about money?
You must be mad if you think that you'll be able to find food in the wasteland.
What brings you to this wasteland?
I didn't expect to meet anyone in this wasteland.
They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.
Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
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2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II. Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air
After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?
Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.
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