Example Sentences
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With the backing of the United Church of Christ, he began to assemble the first major study of the environmental justice era, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2021
Male nonsense, he told himself, but the pressure at his back was always a godly thing, as joyous as when he had first known its wilfulness in small aircraft over the Chicago Wastes.
From Nature • Apr. 16, 2019
Wastes from manufacturing and energy productions are discarded into air, water and soil.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
In “A New Hope,” he’s hiding on Tatooine under the name Ben when he meets Luke Skywalker, whose R2 unit has a message from Princess Leia for him, in the Jundland Wastes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2015
“Augurs left me in the middle of the Great Wastes for the First Trial. After a few days without water, I started falling down a lot.”
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
