Example sentences for: badlands

How can you use “badlands” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The area around this old coalmining town is famous for the prehistoric fossils and remarkably complete remains of dinosaurs whose stamping grounds were the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley.

  • All they could do was stare across the great expanse of flat badlands to the east of the river and wait for the barbarians to arrive.

  • As the road descends south the greenery eventually peters out into volcanic badlands, and at the tip of the island is the fishing port of La Restinga.

  • Many city names express hope, as in New Hope , and New Freedom , Pennsylvania, New Era , Michigan, and the dozens of cities named Paradise . Once in a while, however, a place gets a dysphemistic name, such as the Badlands in South Dakota, or Great Dismal Swamp , which is a 1500-square-mile section of Virginia and North Carolina.

  • (Extreme weather and, briefly, when I was 4, Charles Starkweather, the real-life serial-murderer Martin Sheen played in Badlands .)


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