Wilderness in a sentence as a noun

Altmayer was always the voice in the wilderness, crying for union.

People who go out into the woods without a lot of training in wilderness survival tends to flounder around when things go bad.

The problem with Wikipedia -- one that stems from, and compounds, all of the problems mentioned in this piece -- is that the wilderness has been cleared.

Satellite photos reveal that the city is steadily returning to wilderness.

As soon as I venture out of anything having to do with tech I find myself lost in a wilderness of content farms a million miles wide and only an inch deep.

Bob Parsons flew all the way to Zimbabwe and trekked into the wilderness to save the village's crops and do his small part in keeping down the country's elephant population?

It's practically a wilderness... having an appliance repairman come would be impossible!

It's the price we paid to get to where we are -- thousands of unpopular folks yelling in the wilderness about how we are stupid, wrong, immoral and how we should improve ourselves.

The National Parks and Forests, especially in the West, where there is some notion that the natural landthe wildernessis above the petty desires of human folly.

And while there's something delightfully surreal in listening to the mundania of local traffic and news reports, if you happen to be in a wilderness location trying to find a reliable weather forecast, "area conditions" doesn't do much for you.

Guys parachuted into occupied enemy territory, knowing that they faced execution by the Gestapo if they were caught, trekked cross-country for weeks, hid out in the wilderness for months and snuck into a heavily-guarded facility to plant demolition charges.

Wilderness definitions

noun

(politics) a state of disfavor; "he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness"

noun

a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War

See also: Wilderness

noun

a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; "it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers"

See also: wild

noun

a bewildering profusion; "the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups"; "a wilderness of masts in the harbor"