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
• 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
• But the dystopian flavor of the proposition—an iris scan for some crypto—has been lost on nobody.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• Even something like the Apple Vision Pro is such a dystopian device in many ways.
  — WIRED, 14 June 2023
• 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
• A few years ago, this style of storytelling might have seemed like dystopian science fiction.
  — Pat Padua, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
• 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 show featured a band of stoic, lonely figures in a dystopian arena of howling wind and driving snow.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the immediate days after the tornado, Rolling Fork was a dystopian scene.
  — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Those questions seemed dystopian and absurd, and yet, this is our new post-Roe v. Wade reality.
  — Rebecca Grant, ELLE, 23 June 2023
• The whole thing has a dystopian feel, but it’s alleviated near the end when Diddy appears in a realm much more heavenly and serene.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
• But in a dystopian world, after a pandemic, where everything is stripped back, the basics become quite a big deal.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 28 July 2023
• Evidently, things have since lightened enough for the dystopian drama to make a grand return.
  — Shania Russell, EW.com, 31 May 2023
• On Set It Off, Offset is seen plunging from an upside-down world on fire, which captures our dystopian landscape as much as any record could.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2024
• Sunday night's episode of The Last of Us saw a few more people in America's dystopian wilderness than expected.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2023
• Set in a dystopian London where all social housing has been banned, the film follows the residents of a community called the Kitchen who must fight to save their home.
  — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
• The aspirational slogans about candor, transparency and so on turned out to have a dystopian side.
  — Peter Biskind, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024