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Example sentences for: wasteland

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Even if the exhibition fails to draw the hoped-for 15 million visitors, it will be responsible for turning hundreds of acres of industrial wasteland into a lovely spot on the Thames linked to the rest of the metropolis by the Underground.
Friday is Christmas, and it is a television wasteland.
While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.
Not that Calgary was a wasteland when the post-World War II oil boom began, but it was little more than a cow town, better known for bronco-busting rodeos than business acumen.
This depressing fact has already prompted a welcome cri de coeur from Slate contributor Michael Hirschorn in the newest Brill's Content , where he points out how odd it is that in the wasteland that is the upper reaches of the cable box, there's no room for true international stars like David Beckham, Ronaldo, or Davor Suker.