WILDERNESS in a Sentence

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Though we are not in danger, common prudence would teach us to journey through this wilderness in as quiet a manner as possible.

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 Meanings and Examples of WILDERNESS
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wilderness
 n.  a tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; wild or desert
Classic Sentence: (73 in 5 pages)
1  When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Your family and my family and everyone here tonight made their money out of changing a wilderness into a civilization.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Scarlett's heart failed a beat when she thought how close Tara had come to going back to wilderness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  He made a big plantation out of a wilderness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  He found her alone in the wilderness of pink damask, for in Mrs. Hatch's world the tea-hour was not dedicated to social rites, and the lady was in the hands of her masseuse.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  Takes time, you know, to change a wilderness like this was fifty years ago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  But there was no recent picture, none which suggested the Robert who had gone away five days ago, leaving a void and wilderness behind him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
8  It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
9  Though we are not in danger, common prudence would teach us to journey through this wilderness in as quiet a manner as possible.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  Life is an obligation which friends often owe each other in the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
11  I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlement, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
12  Birds, beasts, and man, appeared to slumber alike, if, indeed, any of the latter were to be found in that wide tract of wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
13  Against this assault, the besieged could only oppose the imperfect and hasty preparations of a fortress in the wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
14  Indeed, many a maimed and feeble soldier was compelled to drag his exhausted limbs in the rear of the columns, for the want of the necessary means of conveyance in that wilderness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
15  Better so than left to starve in the wilderness," returned the scout; "and they will leave a wider trail.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
Example Sentence:
1  His walk soon becomes solitary, leading further and further into a wilderness where twilight is short and the shadows are dense.
2  We wander in some strange wilderness, aimlessly without direction.
3  Even a wilderness is a safer place than exposure to such evils, terrible as storm.
4  How do you irrigate a wound in the wilderness setting?
5  After we reached the railroad terminus, we continued our journey into the wilderness on saddle horses.
6  One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
7  Without a friend, the world is wilderness.
8  The garden is turning into a wilderness.
9  They transformed the wilderness into a garden.
10  Although boosters of drilling there have long tried to cast the vast region in northeastern Alaska as a virtual frozen desert, the wilderness actually teems with life.
11  The sea grew wilder and wilder.