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Example sentences for: wasteland

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Once a poor fishing village and wasteland believed to be inhabited by bad spirits, by the 1980s it was transformed into a frenetic scene, fueled by plenty of alcohol and, for a while, illegal drugs.
, [ 6 20 ] ]. The view of heterochromatin as a genetic wasteland gradually changed with the mapping of a number of functionally important Drosophila genes to constitutive heterochromatin [e.g.
Its young protagonist, Harry Odum (Norman Reedus), a fry-cook in the postindustrial wasteland that is Youngstown, Ohio, lives with a shut-in mother, Kate (Deborah Harry), who has contrived to keep him in a state of sexual ignorance.
In some places the names of the plant and the wasteland where it grows are synonyms.
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.