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Example sentences for: wilderness

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After 150 years of courageous struggle against the harsh Canadian wilderness, New France was abandoned, the old country displaying a cruel lack of enthusiasm for what Voltaire dismissed as quelques arpens de neige — “a few acres of snow.”
But Wolf's politics are roundly ridiculed, especially her idea that girls should retreat to the wilderness with older women to perform ceremonial sex rites.
The million-acre wilderness of Olympic National Park at the peninsula's heart caught my imagination, as did the region's keen-edged inhabitants.
Beyond the town, in a sudden confrontation with the wilderness, a walkway in the forest takes you up close to the pounding waters of the 80-m (240-ft) Ste-Anne Falls, ragged and crashing around the boulders, a much less neat and tidy cascade than Montmorency.
He grew up in the Polish neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago that Nelson Algren captured in one of Royko's favorite books, The Neon Wilderness , and he never left it in spirit.