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Sentence Examples The canal has a total capacity of 30 cusecs of water, which would irrigate about 11,500 kanals of wasteland under Warila Pass. I could see him striding across the wasteland to the Lochee Road towards the railway bridge at Muirton Road. This grey wasteland could only be a breeding ground for a wave of hungry, embittered youth. The species is native to South Africa, but is now widespread in south-western Australia, being especially abundant on roadsides and wasteland. At first glance, the junkyard looks like some sort of post-apocalyptic settlement, a thriving outpost in a wasteland. At one point we got lost and had to exit into an industrial wasteland of junkyards filled with old bathroom fixtures. The terrain varied from dismal rows of dunes to baked claypan, rock-tiled wasteland to savage, waterless mountains. Most television, particularly network programs, has gone from vast wasteland to empty universe. Young bikers are dicing with death by practising their skills on a piece of wasteland. There comes a point in making a new garden when a sudden transformation happens and what was a wasteland becomes a visible, tangible garden. Look at it, it looks like a bomb's hit it, it looks like a wasteland, there's not even a sign of a tree. He kicked out viciously, landing his boot indiscriminately in the pediculous wasteland of Stinker's torso. They wrote it off as the dead centre, rejected it as a good-for-nothing wasteland. A hundred thousand people had been assembled in East Berlin to hear him, on a rubbly wasteland off the Friedrichstrasse. As they sat on gray folding chairs in the desert wasteland, the war seemed to be in dismal shape. Swashbuckling forward play which illuminated the gloomy wasteland of the National League has been rationed to tantalising glimpses. The derelict wasteland that was the Dublin docklands was transformed into a recognisable city landscape of glass-fronted multi-storey buildings. Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland. Finally, they stopped, seeing the sun almost touching the horizon as they now stood in a desolate area, a barren wasteland. The boys wave their arms maniacally, directing an ambulance toward an area of wasteland by the side of the road. Show More Sentences It was a jagged wasteland of ovenlike heat, frantic mosquitoes, and unfordable, unsanitary rivers. In their wake, the giant auto concerns leave behind an industrial wasteland of mass unemployment, ruined infrastructure and social decay. York Central is an industrial wasteland of the type favoured by gritty cop dramas. It is a shocking fact that despite the vast tracts of industrial wasteland in inner Glasgow the city now has a shortage of developable land. The uncredited character in this film is Vegas itself, at times both a glittering wonderland, and a brutal wasteland. Recreational boating and fishing have returned to what was formerly a mosquito-breeding wasteland. Ilaria was no longer a blue lush world but a dark yellow and brown wasteland. By 1985 one-third of the country was considered wasteland, thanks to the use of chemical defoliants. The US, because we are wealthy and powerful, is going to be slandered as a poisonous cultural wasteland. With each piece of bleached, dead coral washed ashore, the marine ecosystem comes that much closer to being a watery wasteland. The Shomali, once known for its grapes, is now a mine-strewn, cratered wasteland. Just imagine our heroine looking broodingly over an urban wasteland and trying to articulate the pressure of living up to the Big Mags legend. It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again. Over 11.85 lakh hectares, roughly 20 per cent of the wasteland in Madhya Pradesh, has been acquired for jatropha cultivation. Still, the slow, artfully mundane burn is right for the town of Lofte, a forgotten satellite deep in the American wasteland. These young people who do not go abroad to study, and do not have the appropriate skills and literacy or marketable job skills are caught in a wasteland of unemployability. He might just save his regime, even if he rules little more than a wasteland filled with corpses. The inaugural addresses of the presidents are, for the most part, a wasteland of howling rhetoric and dried-out inspiration. Pompeii is at risk of becoming a wasteland as its ruins disintegrate to dust due to lack of maintenance. Despite being a heavily patrolled police state, Iran has long borders that stretch across mountains and wasteland. Show More Sentences The post-apocalyptic wasteland is rendered with enough care to impress me. A brand new retail park has very recently been opened on part of the site in the shadow of the few remaining gasholders, surrounded by bleak fenced-off wasteland. If you prefer a solo challenge, consider racing a dog sled over 1,100 miles of Alaskan wasteland on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome. Ten years ago, the area was a vast expanse of industrial wasteland. With scarcely any natural life save for a multitude of rock formations and thin brush, the flat, dusty wasteland was more of an eyesore than an eyeful. On the mudflat wasteland he set up a video camera mounted on a tripod. Without it in the atmosphere, the Earth would be a barren, frozen wasteland. As Trotsky predicted, capitalist restoration has reduced the USSR to a pauperized wasteland prey to all the ravages of imperialist depredation. They will either turn to dust or be renovated, but one way or another they will lose the unique charm of a most beautiful wasteland. She had the gift of finding beauty in a wasteland, and her eye tends to petrify what it looks at. We exited to find a barren wasteland, almost like a 'moonscape' that took about 20 minutes to walk across. There is also a darker story however that descends from the second wave of feminism and from critics of the suburban wasteland. One view can be heard on the wasteland at the north abutment of the Sea Link. Crushed wooden houses now resemble matchwood, scattered in every direction over swampy wasteland. Bill was making his way toward them across the wasteland, his jacket thrown over one shoulder, his gait relaxed, unhurried. This is a frozen wasteland economy and only government can revive it with life-giving breath. But he has never had a proper job since leaving school at 16 and in fairness is unlikely to in today's economic wasteland. We must therefore make every effort to prevent the European Union becoming a scientific wasteland. Imagine that your city offers you to give your opinion about the conversion of the forlorn wasteland down your building. We greatly appreciate CLC's effort to transform the vast wasteland directly across the street into a viable urban site. Show More Sentences Two and a half years ago, the 90,000 square metres of land he bought between the A13 motorway and Landquart station was desolate wasteland. The huge open cast mine will destroy a vast swath of untouched forest and will reduce the mountain to an industrial wasteland. Then followed ten years of drought, turning the city and surrounding areas into a barren wasteland. I'm thinking, for instance, of the wetlands on the shore side of Azerbaijan or about the nuclear wasteland. Certain signs today indicate that the secular world is often a wasteland, a spiritual vacuum. The dry mixture from the toilets is used to reclaim wasteland or put in bags and sold. Working in a post-modern industrial wasteland appears to have influenced Garnier's music, too. Much of the ground looks like wasteland, well and truly munted. He took a time period that was a wasteland and gave it intelligence, wit, and consistent humor. The palm trees have gone, leaving a desolate wasteland of stumps reaching into the sky. But then I needed their attentiveness, as I was collapsed and semi-conscious at the top of a frozen wasteland, the nearest settlement being miles down the mountain. They keep tracking muck in the house and onto my newly mopped floors and leaving the doors open so all of the heat escapes to the outdoor winter wasteland. A familiar sight, almost opposite Bedford Hospital, is the Britannia Works archway, the area behind which has been wasteland for at least ten years. This is now an unending conflict, with echoes of Vietnam, fought in the untracked wasteland of the southern mountains and around the Pakistan border. The park was transformed from wasteland in 1997 and is home to a fascinating array of wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and birds. Large, hard-boned dogs crack their skulls on the smoky rubbish wasteland on the edge of town, hanks of gory sheepskin lie in the turgid filth and multi-species dung. Because this usually means hauling up other soil-stabilizing flora along with the moss, the practice turns vast stretches of poor soil into wasteland. But what of the people it might displace, areas of fertile land that might become stretches of wasteland and even the water wars that might ensue? Peter, an 18-year-old who lives with his parents and sister in a middle-class Toronto suburban wasteland in the early 1960s, is a rebel without a cause or a clue. So far they have dreamed up murals to decorate wasteland, ornate gates for a park and colourful name signs at an estate in Farnworth where streets are named after flowers. Show More Sentences This story is too far fetched, because a hole in the ozone in Antartica would generate so much heat, that Antartica would be a tropical forest, or a fiery wasteland! However, workplace practices and the physical landscape of the cities have improved so much that the old fears of a modern visual wasteland are by now superannuated. Most versions begin with the mortal archer Hou Yi, who shoots down a number of rogue suns which have been turning the earth into a parched wasteland thousands of years ago. You'll see pasturelands, areas made into wasteland by cornfields. In their slick tuxedoed coats, they could almost be a column of wedding guests stranded in the snow, until they drop down and start belly surfing across the icy wasteland. In a long tracking shot at the start of the film, a feral cat prowls this wasteland until it is felled by a slow-motion arrow. His tent is a walk across a black wasteland pocked by the twisted wreckage of vehicles blown up in the war and little piles of human faeces left by the locals, who eschew latrines. Rag and Bone with their Boneyard Tales brought a wasteland of discarded rubbish to life. The favourable assessment estimates that this project will contribute to the development of the city and the conglomeration whilst putting into value a zone perceived as urban and industrial wasteland. Despite everything, however, our manufacturing base is packing up and pulling out, leaving behind it millions of unemployed, tracts of industrial wasteland and a deserted countryside. The wasteland map is a beautiful abstraction: a few buildings, mountains, a constantly-pinging radar attached to where my rangers are, and an X where my next destination is. Years of shared experience, he says, have transformed this apparently desolate wasteland into a small island of enchantment in an ocean of suburban dreariness. Early on Tuesday morning, the estate resembled a desolate wasteland. Within this wasteland full of cannibalistic violence, a father employs every last shred of strength to preserve the remainder of his son's life's spirit. In March another animal, a skewbald pony, had to be put down by a vet after being found collapsed on wasteland in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. His delicate pen-and-ink drawings vivify nightmares — a rocking-horse guillotine slices up little men, a tiger-faced snake slithers through a wasteland, maidens are molested by an ape and a giant squid. This crucial issue of the privatization of public space also concerns urban wasteland, where new forms of creation, relationships to the public, and cultural action are being invented outside of the overrun grounds. Similarly, while Romanticism glorified nature, Realism portrayed life in the depths of an urban wasteland. Where there was a living community, a wasteland is created. In this ever expanding universe of heroes and villains, Mata Nui, once a great and powerful ruler, awakens to find himself in a remote, decaying wasteland of scrap parts and burnished metals. Show More Sentences Crumbling and pockmarked with the bullets and bombs of war they will be painfully dismantled and the square will be transformed into a lone and level wasteland. In Detroit, home to the automobile industry and a city in economic decline, the power-driven techno sound was the beat of an urban industrial wasteland. I now choose to move forward from this toxic wasteland of human depravity my victimiser sadistically exposed me to. But that has not made Canada a wasteland of godlessness. Unrestrained, this tendency results in wealthy core zones surrounded by wasteland, a phenomenon which may be observed in all domains and in society itself. Large parts of this wasteland are to be found in every province. Finally, the acquisition then demolition of this wasteland located right in the heart of the city will put an end to all sorts of nuisances caused by this situation and should have a positive effect. The beach looked like a small swatch of an industrial wasteland.... He had promised me a crowd-free break that was off the grid, and here it was. Its capital, Sukhumi, a place whose pine-scented air should be a magnet for tourists, is a slummy wasteland whose port is a free-for-all for shady business. Setting up a palace on the edge of this arctic wasteland, the Snow King's chilly spirit took pleasure in expanding his kingdom beyond the North Pole. The campaigners dream of a mass march through Gaza's crossings to break free of the suffocating siege and of replanting the farmland that has been turned into a wasteland. In the wasteland of electoral defeat, it is the voice that can most authoritatively account for the failings of the immediate past that shapes the debate about the future. Since then, although some good souls have assured us that everything is working out nicely, Togo is still living in a political wasteland and it has a long way to go before it escapes from it. This area, behind the harbour had been largely industrial wasteland for many years and was regarded as an eyesore. After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland. A notable example is Sydney Olympic Park, the primary venue for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, which was built atop an industrial wasteland that included landfills. After hosting a family party at his new home, he returned to the wasteland behind Manchester's Southern Cemetery, where he had left the body, to retrieve the note. The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial wasteland. Examples from Classical Literature Help was not always available, and there could be no waste movements in a wasteland. The Confederate force was already starting withdrawal, battery by battery, as the wasteland of the fire lighted them on their way. Hours later he spotted the caravan in the immensity of sand and wasteland. Nothing, for as far as the eye could see there was only wasteland. At the foot of the hill lay wasteland over which a few groups of our Cossack scouts were moving. A PATCH of rubbish-strewn wasteland has been transformed into a nature garden by residents of a Coventry housing estate. Before Christmas, mannequins in pale padded creations were set adrift in an Arctic wasteland. Our world of Rajj is a wasteland where once we and our fellows lived. The far wall of the gallery is pierced by a tall window, which looks out over a canal and, beyond that, toward a wasteland presided over by derelict gas cylinders. Find more words! 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