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How to use the word wilderness in a Sentence?

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We keep moving, i just hope people come to their senses. I’m a voice crying out in the wilderness, but I was put here because God saved me. What you’re seeing on planet Earth is spiritual warfare… The grace of God, it’s a free gift. So boy, if you’re on the wrong side of this thing, you really ought to rethink it.

Phil Robertson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Supporting CIEDRA is like agreeing to give away two of your children to save one, if you love wilderness, why would you not fight to save Supporting CIEDRA all ?

Carole King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We just heard the Ring front door go off and went to check and saw the bears, our neighborhood is down the road from Black Bear Wilderness Preserve, so bears are common, and we have seen them in the neighborhood.

Marlene Stark

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In some cases, you're protecting already severely degraded landscapes. If we could replace protection with restoration or recovery then This British farm would be This British farm, the perception is that Scotland is a wilderness.

Peter Cairns

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Unless he's just going Rambo in the wilderness ... he's being helped, i guess people could do it, but who knows that this dude has that skill?

Seth Ferranti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Brian claims he wants to sit in the background while we search for Gabby in the wilderness of the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, brian left Gabby in the wilderness with grizzly bears and wolves while he sits in the comfort of his home. In his home!

Brian Laundrie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're up into the wilderness area, it's just a tough piece of ground. We're in there beating it up. It's over a two-hour hike to get in there.

Jake Cagle

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Biden administration’s actions are not unexpected but are outrageous nonetheless, suspending leases in Alaska’s 1002 Area is in direct conflict with the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, through which Congress mandates an oil and gas leasing program be established on the non-wilderness Coastal Plain, and ordered at least two lease sales by 2024.

Lisa Murkowski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

Gordon Lightfoot

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Nonetheless, he appeared healthy overall and energetic as he nursed a tall cup of McDonalds coffee. He seemed happy to talk, and certainly to have survived 22 or 23 days in the wilderness.

Tyson Steele

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I think it strengthens it. What the administration is basically said -- what the President Donald Trump campaign has said is : it was just Bill Weld for a while, it's a voice crying in the wilderness, it's -- pay it no attention. All of a sudden, when you end up with three candidates and three different candidates saying there's something wrong with this presidency, what's going on here is not consistent with the Republican Party that we know about, believe in and invested major portions of our life in, that's a different conversation.

Mark Sanford

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Pretty early on when I realized I was lost I came to grasp with the possibility of me dying and actually came quite to peace with it and was not too worried, [It] felt like of all the places to die, the Bitterroot Wilderness is the place to do it. But, remembering the promise that I had made to Arden, that I would come home safe and take care of that baby, my mind switched and it was survival mode for the next 5 days after that. The focus was just getting home no matter what.

Arden Laga

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

Elayne Boosler

added by Normando
5 years ago

Yet again Bear Grylls' animal killing activities are quite rightly coming under fire, it's time for TV to dump this tired routine of men charging around the wilderness dominating wildlife and killing for ratings. It shows a callous disregard for the natural world and treats animals like mere props.

Claire Bass

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are about a dozen instances of extensive vehicle traffic off roads and in some cases into wilderness. We had destruction of government property with the cutting of chains and locks for people to access campgrounds, we've never seen this level of out-of-bounds camping. Every day-use area was occupied every evening. Joshua trees were actually cut down in order to make new roads.

David Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I felt like, being from Germany, she wasn't familiar with the Glacier Peak wilderness area, and Glacier Peak creates Glacier Peak own weather, and it can be really bad this time of year, the whole two hours we were hiking together, I was trying to talk her out of it.

Nancy Abell

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It's an extremely romantic destination, almost every night we have a spectacular sunset. You find you are the only person in the wilderness.

Hennie Rawlinson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It’s pretty bad when you get bit by a seal. people think the bay is their backyard, but it really is the beginning of the wilderness.

Lynn Cullivan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

People think the bay is their backyard, but it really is the beginning of the wilderness.

Lynn Cullivan

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

28 days stranded out in the wilderness and Lisa is still standing, strongest person i know, she is severly weakened, she is in pain, she is emaciated.

Will Theris

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I don’t have anywhere else to go, otherwise I wouldn’t have lasted here for this long, but I will die in an apartment building. I am used to being free. I have 18 years of wilderness.

Gigel Enache

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I was disappointed that the final product ultimately omitted case studies on the Australian sites—the Great Barrier Reef, Tasmanian wilderness and Kakadu National Park.

Adam Markham

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Boris is not really a team player, he's a leader, and either his party and the country will accept him as leader, or he'll be in the wilderness.

Andrew Gimson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If we were to leave ... it is unlikely that these areas would be set aside for conservation, the area of interest has had accelerated development pressures over the last 20 years and it is not the pristine wilderness it was two decades ago.

Chairman Jacques Nasser

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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