Bad Lands

American  

plural noun

1. a barren, severely eroded region in SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska.

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Bad Lands British  

plural noun

1. a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska

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Example Sentences

As I was not prepared for the Missouri boundary, so I was not prepared for the Bad Lands.

From Literature

Only enough of these pamphlets were printed to reach the few hundred comrades who rode the grim circuit of "The Bad Lands" in that eventful centennial year.

From Project Gutenberg

Here is a short example of Indian story-telling: Far out in the middle of the “Bad Lands” upon the Little Missouri, there stands a pillar-like butte some four or five hundred paces in height.

From Project Gutenberg

In the far distance, at the open end of the valley, the eye is arrested by turret-shaped buttes, showing the bizarre formation and variegated strata characteristic of the “Bad Lands.”

From Project Gutenberg

Aimless rock formation was a drug on the creation’s market the day that the Bad Lands were made.

From Project Gutenberg