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T.S. Eliot poem, with "The"
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wasteland
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Wasteland was an American anthology-style horror comic book published by DC Comics in 1987–1989 and intended for adult readers. The series lasted 18 issues. Each issue (with the exception of the book-length final issue) consisted of three unrelated stories ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE industrial ▪ Five years later the industrial wasteland is a thriving mini-Docklands with homes, offices, roads, Victorian-style bridges and modern services. ▪ Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1825 as one word, from waste (adj.) + land (n.). Figurative sense is attested from 1868. Eliot's poem is from 1922.\n\nApril is the cruellest month, breeding \n Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing \n Memory and desire, stirring \n Dull roots with spring ...
Usage examples of wasteland.
Air groups and missile sections launched on training exercises over Canadian wasteland that closely resembled tundra, with grid maps that bore names like Maina Pylgin and Kamenskoe.
The boat was skimming the side of a canyon wasteland, an endless terrain of monochromatic rubble that looked less inviting than the surface of the moon.
The attempts to burn them down had only made them more dangerous and uglier, and deepened the wasteland, and thickened the soupy air, like something out of the Jurassic Ageblack rocks and big greasy birds.
He flipped from late show to late show in the televisual wasteland, unable to focus.
Derkhan and Yagharek were standing, unheld, at the edges of the wasteland.
The climber had been less than helpful during this part of our ascent anyway, and the alternative was just to wait here as the sweat began to chill and solidify in my outer garments, or to try some other route, possibly abseiling down into the jagged wasteland of crevasses below the verglas cliff.
To relieve the boredom of it as they rode through the thickening ashfall, he thought about one of the huge skeletons they had passed when they had first entered the wasteland.
Midgard and into the strip of wasteland that separated her birthland from Jotunheim.
Up until a hundred years ago, the bogs had been considered useless, mere wasteland.
It was a piece of wasteland on the edge of a gully with a brickyard on one side of it and a gravel pit on the other.
Wasteland have been moving toward Lattash through those caves instead of down the ravine?
As Fitz and Charlton recovered their breath, the Doctor gazed out across the wasteland, the breeze ruffling his mane of hair.
The still-living torso and head were left to die alone in a stretch of sandy, flyblown wasteland.
He moved sideways along cross-beams, ensuring that he came to ground behind the backs of the houses, in the little scrap of wasteland that surrounded the foetid stub of the canal.
I phoned from the hotbox provided by Gen Tel out on the cement wasteland.