How to Use dystopian in a Sentence

dystopian

adjective

• Brown, a technology lawyer by day, has already earned significant honors for his science fiction, which can be described as dystopian and, at the same time, somehow upbeat.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 11 Nov. 2024
• It's been just over three years since Season 1 of the series, which follows a dystopian competition show where impoverished people compete in deadly childhood games for a cash prize.
  — Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024