How to Use wilderness in a Sentence

wilderness

noun
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  • She enjoys hikes through the wilderness.
  • Since his win at the 2019 Phoenix Open, he’s wandered the golf wilderness.
    — The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2023
  • He was dressed for the cold in a snowy wilderness joined by one of the family’s dogs.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The men’s basketball program has been lost in the wilderness for much of the past 15 years.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The first scene of 1923 had opened with Cara killing a man with a shotgun and screaming into the wilderness.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The 1980s saw Jaguar return to the top of the endurance racing world after a couple of decades in the wilderness.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2023
  • From scaling the steep stairs at The Sphere to your wildest wilderness walks, no need to sacrifice on style.
    — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Muir’s fingerprints are all over those years in the wilderness.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Both stories take a Lord of the Flies approach to feral instincts that emerge in the wilderness.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Some made it to the wilderness only to start fires in hopes of being spotted and rescued.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But some truck owners like to leave the tarmac behind to have a little fun in the wilderness.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • There’s nothing like sitting in a comfy camp chair next to the fire on a starry night in the wilderness.
    — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Maybe that means spending less time looking at birds on the app and more time looking at birds out in the wilderness.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
  • Come nightfall, drive north out of Moab and head deep into the wilderness, spread out a blanket, and gaze up at the sky above.
    — Alicia Erickson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The narrative recounts the girl’s journey through the wilderness.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Years later, some of the money turned up half-buried in the wilderness—but no trace of Cooper has ever been found.
    — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • If Saint-Pierre is the metropolis, Miquelon is the suburbs, and Langlade is the rural wilderness.
    — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • What to do: Rent a kayak, canoe or paddleboard and make your way through the park’s 50 miles of mangrove wilderness.
    — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the Showtime hit, a high-school girls’ soccer team must rely on each other to survive in the wilderness.
    — Yael Kohen, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2023
  • There’s also a detailed 18-page booklet that doubles as a first-aid guide, whether in the wilderness or at home.
    — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
  • By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in the Canadian wilderness.
    — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Last week, Buddy was found weighing just 15 pounds, leaving the staff to wonder how the bear had survived alone in the wilderness.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Toward the end of the first season, in a wilderness interlude, Van is attacked by wolves, her face torn open.
    — Lydia Kiesling, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The rustic retreat has 21 rooms total—some of which are cottages—and is set to embed its guests in the moody coastal wilderness.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Until recently, only a dirt road through the wilderness led to the Pine Ridge Forest.
    — Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Thirty-three mushers will race with their dogs nearly 1,000 miles through the Alaskan wilderness.
    — Alicia Delgallo, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Some seekers took weekends to confirm their hunches in the wilderness; others spent weeks or months in the West.
    — Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But the vast wilderness and unique dangers of the Amazon meant that it was initially deemed too risky to send anyone on foot.
    — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The train started to move up the Cascades and into the Oregonian wilderness.
    — Julia Carmelstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Having broken with his singer and his lyricist, Bacharach wandered in the wilderness.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023

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