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Example sentences for: wasteland

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Every country needs its mythic place, and Canada’s is the fabled North, the icy “wasteland” in which the country and the world like to cloak the national image.
At the uncompromising extreme are J. Hoberman of the Village Voice and Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader , who ignore the Hollywood wasteland almost entirely.
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.
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.
In this part of the world, in past eras, gold rushes created cities out of a wasteland overnight and just as quickly returned them to dust.