How to Use dystopia in a Sentence

dystopia

noun

• But as the episode unfolds, there’s an eerie sense of dystopia afoot.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• Phase two showed us that the trouble wasn't the coming dystopia.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, Wired News, 17 Apr. 2015
• Its dystopia of choice is the Hollywood of the recent past.
  — Time, 15 June 2023
• But what first seemed like a lonely dystopia has, for many,...
  — Matthew Kitchen, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2020
• Some claimed this was proof that Great Britain had become a dystopia.
  — Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
• And this is where the modern world veers toward dystopia.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2019
• James Williams does not believe talk of dystopia is far-fetched.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2017
• And for a long while in this pandemic dystopia, no one dared budge.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Seoul is a place that veers between utopia and dystopia with alarming speed.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• Seoul is a place that veers between utopia and dystopia with alarming speed.
  — Gary Shteyngart, Smithsonian, 23 May 2017
• The episode knows that in the very near future, all sorts of factors will lead us into dystopia.
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 5 June 2019
• The dystopia of 2020 requires something stronger than cute song-and-dance routines.
  — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2020
• There are no vampires in this bleak dystopia — though one might be welcomed.
  — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
• Audiences compared the event to The Hunger Games, a dystopia where the wealthy sit back as everyone else fights to the death.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 May 2024
• The scorching summer blasted Parisians off the streets and turned the city into an eerie dystopia of what may lie ahead.
  — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019
• Like that play, this latest work is set in a dystopia around the corner, in a world that at first glance seems much like our own.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
• The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its fourth season and, frankly, a dystopia that isn’t ours sounds nice right about now.
  — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
• The overall effect is of a retro dystopia: Spotify in the world of Blade Runner.
  — WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
• San Diego needs to invest in infrastructures, but not ones that lay the train tracks to dystopia.
  — Lilly Irani, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
• This is the way dystopia happens, Years and Years says: Not with a bang, but with a series of exhausted shrugs.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 June 2019
• There are some robots, a lot of Blade Runner–esque neon lights littered around the city, and a very vague sense of dystopia in the air.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
• Perhaps the most monumental of those lost women was Lexa from the CW's sci-fi dystopia show The 100.
  — refinery29.com, 22 May 2018
• What if, instead of a dystopia, the Matrix was an Elysium?
  — Josh Wilbur, WIRED, 4 June 2019
• Neal Shusterman zooms in on the razor-thin line between utopia and dystopia.
  — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2020
• Online, though, commenters said the scene reminded them of a dystopia.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 13 July 2021
• On top of that, some of the people that write these dystopias — not all of them — don’t really understand tech.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Oct. 2018
• Things only get wilder as the song oozes on, with Eilish taking on the role of some kind of child tyrant in a suburban dystopia.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
• But the fact of any performance is buoying; that artists, fans and venues have faith in an end to the dystopia that isolated them for so long.
  — Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 29 July 2021
• In a treeless dystopia run by robots, glimmers of humanity and hope.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2024
• The vision challenges the portrayal of urban dystopia central to so much science fiction.
  — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024