Examples of “deadland” in a Sentence

noun A barren area, such as a desert, where nothing can live.

• These must be the real deadlands. Here, there is no new growth to camouflage what the wars have done. — Ellen Dee Davidson, Stolen Voices (2005)

noun A place associated with death, or a deadly land.

• Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness. — Ben Okri, A Time For New Dreams (2011)

noun A word for life after death, in beliefs where it brings no reward or punishment.

• They feared lest passing souls, which had just quitted the bodies of dying people, should enter their huts and carry off the souls of the inmates to deadland. — Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: Taboo and the perils of the soul (1990)