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How do you use Wilderness in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like disfavor or richness, plus the exact meaning.

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Wilderness in a sentence

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Wilderness meaning

  1. Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
  2. A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.
  3. An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

Synonyms of Wilderness

disfavor richness profuseness profusion geographic region geographical region geographic area geographical area wild woods wood forest disfavour cornucopia

Using Wilderness

  • The main meaning on this page is: Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild. | A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness. | An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.
  • Useful related words include: disfavor, richness, profuseness, profusion.
  • In the example corpus, wilderness often appears in combinations such as: the wilderness, wilderness area, wilderness to.

Context around Wilderness

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Wilderness

  • In this selection, "wilderness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, protected, adams, hoover, areas, society and road stand out and add context to how "wilderness" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 19th annual wilderness weekend on and accessory in wilderness travel. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "wilderness" sits close to words such as alcoholic, cylinder and hugh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with wilderness

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

After escaping a second time and getting shot in the leg, he runs into the wilderness. (16 words)

The Wilderness Act is the “gold standard” for protection of wilderness, wildlife and fish habitat and biological diversity. (18 words)

But contact with real wilderness in Maine affected him far differently than had the idea of wilderness in Concord. (19 words)

From the Los Rios we got back in the car drove a few miles down Ortega Highway to Caspers Wilderness Park, an 8,000-acre protected wilderness preserve nestled among the river terraces and sandstone canyons of the western coastal Santa Ana Mountains. (43 words)

According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency has two special agents in Idaho, two in Wyoming, and three in Montana — a total of seven agents covering more than 328,000 square miles, much of it rugged backcountry wilderness. (40 words)

While wilderness experts caution against carrying the devices as an excuse to take unnecessary risks, like paddling alone into a snowstorm even as lakes are icing over, the devices are becoming a more widely accepted accessory in wilderness travel. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

Three wilderness areas are adjacent to Yosemite: the Ansel Adams Wilderness to the southeast, the Hoover Wilderness to the northeast, and the Emigrant Wilderness to the north.

Sixteen mountain goats were removed from the Mount Ellinor and Mount Washington area, seven from The Brothers Wilderness, seven from the Buckhorn Wilderness, and two from the Mount Skokomish Wilderness.

Wilderness Society South Australian Director Peter Owen says the Wilderness Society welcomes Equinor’s decision to responsibly withdraw from the marine wilderness that is the Great Australian Bight.

The Wilderness Act is the “gold standard” for protection of wilderness, wildlife and fish habitat and biological diversity.

Brave Wilderness — Nathaniel "Coyote" Peterson hosts videos from “Blue Wilderness,” a series featuring ocean life, to those in which he allows himself to be stung by various creatures.

Whatever wilderness there is, then, it is wilderness that has been barred and prevented by some government, i.e., with taxpayer funds, from being homesteaded by private parties (most likely by neighboring property owners).

While wilderness experts caution against carrying the devices as an excuse to take unnecessary risks, like paddling alone into a snowstorm even as lakes are icing over, the devices are becoming a more widely accepted accessory in wilderness travel.

From the Los Rios we got back in the car drove a few miles down Ortega Highway to Caspers Wilderness Park, an 8,000-acre protected wilderness preserve nestled among the river terraces and sandstone canyons of the western coastal Santa Ana Mountains.

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Shenandoah National Park will honor America’s wilderness heritage during its 19th annual Wilderness Weekend on Sept. 7. Special events and programs will take place throughout the day.

This year commemorates the 43rd anniversary of Shenandoah’s wilderness designation where forty percent of the park, or nearly 80,000 acres, is designated wilderness.

In addition to the limited roadless wilderness remaining in the United States, downgrading wilderness areas to wild forests may sacrifice the few lingering fragments of unspoiled nature in the Northeast.

But contact with real wilderness in Maine affected him far differently than had the idea of wilderness in Concord.

For example, at 2.3 million acres (930,000 ha), the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area is the largest contiguous area of protected wilderness in the continental United States.

Mules are still used extensively to transport cargo in rugged roadless regions, such as the large wilderness areas of California's Sierra Nevada mountains or the Pasayten Wilderness of northern Washington state.

The Trace was called the "North Carolina Road" or " Avery's Trace ", and sometimes "The Wilderness Road" (although it should not be confused with Daniel Boone 's " Wilderness Road " through the Cumberland Gap ).

According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency has two special agents in Idaho, two in Wyoming, and three in Montana — a total of seven agents covering more than 328,000 square miles, much of it rugged backcountry wilderness.

After escaping a second time and getting shot in the leg, he runs into the wilderness.

After more than a decade in the wilderness, Democrats are picturing a future where Republicans don’t have an automatic lock on state government in one of the country’s most important swing states.

After years of hiding out in the Alaskan wilderness, a deadly assassin returns to rescue the daughter she loved from afar.

A one-of-a-kind partnership with Colorado Parks and Wildlife is planned to modernize the property’s facilities and manage recreation at the remote lake surrounded by homes and wilderness at the end of a long dirt road.

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Common combinations with wilderness

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "wilderness" in a sentence?
An example: "Three wilderness areas are adjacent to Yosemite: the Ansel Adams Wilderness to the southeast, the Hoover Wilderness to the northeast, and the Emigrant Wilderness to the north." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "wilderness" from authentic English texts.
What does "wilderness" mean?
Wilderness means: Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.
What are synonyms of "wilderness"?
Common synonyms of "wilderness" include: disfavor, richness, profuseness, profusion, geographic region, geographical region, geographic area, geographical area. Plus 6 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "wilderness" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "wilderness", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.