How to Use wilderness in a Sentence

wilderness

noun

• She enjoys hikes through the wilderness.
• The bull’s call seemed to be the very essence of the wilderness.
  — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 12 Sep. 2024
• Sifting through the wilderness to get the good stuff can be tough.
  — Wired, 1 Aug. 2022
• Since his win at the 2019 Phoenix Open, he’s wandered the golf wilderness.
  — The Arizona Republic, 12 Feb. 2023
• He was dressed for the cold in a snowy wilderness joined by one of the family’s dogs.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2023
• The men’s basketball program has been lost in the wilderness for much of the past 15 years.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 3 Feb. 2024
• The first scene of 1923 had opened with Cara killing a man with a shotgun and screaming into the wilderness.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Jan. 2023
• The 1980s saw Jaguar return to the top of the endurance racing world after a couple of decades in the wilderness.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean he has been exiled to the show business wilderness.
  — Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 May 2024
• The most effective books don’t portray wilderness as a scary place—even the dark forests and the deep oceans.
  — Emily Barone, Time, 12 Oct. 2022
• From scaling the steep stairs at The Sphere to your wildest wilderness walks, no need to sacrifice on style.
  — Sunset Staff, Sunset Magazine, 9 Oct. 2023
• Muir’s fingerprints are all over those years in the wilderness.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• Both stories take a Lord of the Flies approach to feral instincts that emerge in the wilderness.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• Some made it to the wilderness only to start fires in hopes of being spotted and rescued.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• But some truck owners like to leave the tarmac behind to have a little fun in the wilderness.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
• There’s nothing like sitting in a comfy camp chair next to the fire on a starry night in the wilderness.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2023
• Maybe that means spending less time looking at birds on the app and more time looking at birds out in the wilderness.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
• Come nightfall, drive north out of Moab and head deep into the wilderness, spread out a blanket, and gaze up at the sky above.
  — Alicia Erickson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2022
• The narrative recounts the girl’s journey through the wilderness.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2023
• As always, take care of the landscape and use best-wilderness practices.
  — Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 28 July 2022
• Nick’s Lagoon — a pond-shaped salt marsh the size of a football field that spills in and out of Hood Canal with the ebb of the tides — is far from pristine wilderness.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• Years later, some of the money turned up half-buried in the wilderness—but no trace of Cooper has ever been found.
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
• Hike in big groups of three or more; avoid venturing into the wilderness alone.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 22 July 2024
• Hike in big groups of three or more; avoid venturing into the wilderness alone.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
• If Saint-Pierre is the metropolis, Miquelon is the suburbs, and Langlade is the rural wilderness.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• What to do: Rent a kayak, canoe or paddleboard and make your way through the park’s 50 miles of mangrove wilderness.
  — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• In the Showtime hit, a high-school girls’ soccer team must rely on each other to survive in the wilderness.
  — Yael Kohen, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2023
• There’s also a detailed 18-page booklet that doubles as a first-aid guide, whether in the wilderness or at home.
  — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 5 Oct. 2023
• By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in the Canadian wilderness.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• When the parents sacrifice themselves to save their children, the kids find themselves alone, lost and hunted in the vast Australian wilderness.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024