Wasteland

Definition

wasteland /'weÇstlænd/ n [U, C] (အသံုးခ်၍မရေသာ) ေျမ႐ိုင္း ေျမေကာ။ an industrial wasteland ❍ ( fig ) a cultural/spiritual wasteland.

Examples

1. ‘We drive through flat wastelands of scrub and dust.’
2. ‘After a period in the rock wastelands during the nineties
3. he has emerged as a white-haired charmer
4. with sex appeal to women of a certain age
5. as they say.’
6. ‘I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop.’
7. ‘In the frigid dark silence he sat
8. the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands
9. almost lulling him to sleep.’
10. ‘The estimates of wastelands range from 76 million hectares to 175 million hectares.’
11. ‘I seem to wander between the wastelands within as of late.’
12. ‘The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding
13. in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil.’
14. ‘His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands
15. and he huddled within himself
16. a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power.’
17. ‘The mountain passes are high and demanding
18. the climate gives extremes of weather conditions
19. the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless.’
20. ‘The trip would comprise of roughly 750 km through the vast Mongolian prairies and the arid wastelands of the Gobi desert.’
21. ‘These wetlands carelessly almost stupidly classified as wastelands are the first to lose ground to urban built-environments.’
22. ‘The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans.’
23. ‘A historical epic set in China's vast northern wastelands would be expensive to make.’
24. ‘The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad.’
25. ‘Wood is found in the village's wastelands / countryside
26. or re-used from the rubble of the houses.’
27. ‘A harsh wind blew in from the wastelands
28. cutting through the damp concrete walls and sending the temperature in the cell down another few degrees.’
29. ‘It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again.’
30. ‘They were denuding the sheep pastures of grass
31. turning once successful ranches into wastelands and reducing wool production by half.’
32. ‘All of the planet was either polluted seas
33. barren wastelands
34. or decaying urban sprawl.’
35. ‘The new peripheral communities were decried for everything from scarring the landscape to being cultural wastelands.’