Wasteland

/ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/ · noun

Meaning

A place with no remaining resources; a desert..

Definitions by Sense

1. A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
2. Any barren or uninteresting place.
3. A devastated, uninhabitable area.
4. Unused land.

Example Sentences

Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

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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