wasteland
/ˈweɪs(t)land/
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American sound/ˈweɪs(t)land/
wasteland
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- 2 syllables
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- Short i vowel
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was - te - land -> wasteland
Myanmar meaning
သီးနှံမဖြစ်ထွန်းသော ၊ အသုံးမကျသောမြေ။ စိတ်ဓာတ် ၊ ဉာဏ်ပညာဟု ၊ မြို့ဟု သတ်မှတ်ခံရသော ဒေသ ၊ ကာလ။
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- ‘We drive through flat wastelands of scrub and dust.’
- ‘After a period in the rock wastelands during the nineties, he has emerged as a white-haired charmer, with sex appeal to women of a certain age, as they say.’
- ‘I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop.’
- ‘In the frigid dark silence he sat, the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands, almost lulling him to sleep.’
- ‘The estimates of wastelands range from 76 million hectares to 175 million hectares.’
- ‘I seem to wander between the wastelands within as of late.’
- ‘The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding, in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil.’
- ‘His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power.’
- ‘The mountain passes are high and demanding, the climate gives extremes of weather conditions, the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless.’
- ‘The trip would comprise of roughly 750 km through the vast Mongolian prairies and the arid wastelands of the Gobi desert.’
- ‘These wetlands carelessly almost stupidly classified as wastelands are the first to lose ground to urban built-environments.’
- ‘The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans.’
- ‘A historical epic set in China's vast northern wastelands would be expensive to make.’
- ‘The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad.’
- ‘Wood is found in the village's wastelands / countryside, or re-used from the rubble of the houses.’
- ‘A harsh wind blew in from the wastelands, cutting through the damp concrete walls and sending the temperature in the cell down another few degrees.’
- ‘It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again.’
- ‘They were denuding the sheep pastures of grass, turning once successful ranches into wastelands and reducing wool production by half.’
- ‘All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl.’
- ‘The new peripheral communities were decried for everything from scarring the landscape to being cultural wastelands.’
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