How to Use dystopian in a Sentence

dystopian

adjective
  • But in Ellen’s own section, set in a dystopian version of the 2040s, the carousel has stopped.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But Ash of Spire Healthcare has a less dystopian view of the future.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Feb. 2023
  • This is not the intro to a dystopian sci-fi novel but present-day Britain.
    Alexander Smith, NBC News, 18 July 2022
  • Still, not all of Kline’s visions are quite so dystopian.
    Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This new show comes on the heels of her work on the Apple TV+ dystopian drama Silo.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Lawrence starred as the heroine of the first four Hunger Games films, which are based on the young-adult dystopian book series of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
    Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 10 June 2023
  • Joey King is breaking beauty norms in the dystopian film Uglies.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024
  • For one, the Earth of 2045 that Wade is escaping from is a dystopian hellscape wrecked by climate change.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There is a lot of hype surrounding AI, both dystopian and utopian.
    Paul Blough, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But the dystopian flavor of the proposition—an iris scan for some crypto—has been lost on nobody.
    WIRED, 28 July 2023
  • The Mad Max franchise has grown from a cult classic into a beloved dystopian empire.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • Even something like the Apple Vision Pro is such a dystopian device in many ways.
    WIRED, 14 June 2023
  • Skinny jeans were shredded down to threads and cracked white coatings gave denim pieces a dystopian look and feel.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Is dystopian fiction timely or just too much these days?
    Maureen Corrigan Washington Post, Star Tribune, 6 Sep. 2020
  • This is not a dystopian novel and was never intended to be.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022
  • What Lee and Beck have created is a hybrid of an Automat, an art gallery, and a sort of adorably dystopian future.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The film is set in a dystopian society where the state has the power to determine who can and cannot father children.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The city is grimy and dystopian, and Lopez looks slightly unsettled as trash and debris flits across cracked pavement.
    Vulture, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Michael Cera plays a billionaire who has blown himself up on his way to Mars and appears in the dystopian year 2053 as an A.I. upload.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Several people did double-takes as Meg passed through the rooms, but no one looked twice at her dystopian date.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
  • As a writer and professor, that makes for a dystopian future.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Almost overnight, the game evolved from an obscure indie project mocked as a dystopian knockoff of Pokémon to one of the most popular games in the world.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The book in question was a love story set in a dystopian world with elements of science fiction.
    Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 15 July 2023
  • The dystopian reality is revealed through the eyes of two girls living on opposite sides of the wall.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • A few years ago, this style of storytelling might have seemed like dystopian science fiction.
    Pat Padua, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The movie partially takes place much later in the X-Men timeline, in a dystopian alternate 2023.
    Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • This future is not the province of dystopian science fiction.
    Ilan Z. Baron, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The dystopian action movie came on tracking Thursday morning, three weeks ahead of its debut in theaters across the U.S.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The billionaire would, of course, stand to become even richer should such a dystopian, Big Brother world ever come to pass.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Not dystopian The look of the Terra and Traveler will be immediately recognizable to a lot of people.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024

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