Example sentences for: wilderness

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

  • Apart from a few explorers, trappers, gold-diggers, and oil drillers, most Canadians have preferred to hug the narrow strip along the American border and know little of the northern wilderness.

  • Yet the wilderness restored itself.

  • Spraying the roughly 150-million-plus acres of America's last great wilderness preserves is simply impractical.

  • Cynicism dissolves with your first taste of the town’s gentle ambience, created by a clever combination of the comforts of sophisticated modernity with the simpler joys of the wilderness at its back door.

  • And later, à la Rousseau, "As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European mind: I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust."


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