noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wilderness area
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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I slithered in his wake, looking up hopelessly at the great smooth wilderness rearing above us.
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They went almost hopelessly into the great wilderness of trees where it seemed impossible to find anything.
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For the first time ever, in a giant film format, you can journey to the Earth's last great wilderness .
political
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The subsequent phase between 1934 and 1939 signalled the return of the party from the political wilderness of sectarian isolationism.
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He was perpetually in the political wilderness , often tossed out of office.
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Yet here we are, Denis and Ted and I, and countless, nameless others, out in the political wilderness .
■ NOUN
area
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I have consistently maintained that the canoe is the traditional craft for exploring wilderness areas without disturbing wildlife.
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The one lingering question this year is when the high mountain wilderness areas will become accessible.
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Each sovereign state has enacted legislation establishing national parks, scientific or scenic reserves and wilderness areas .
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His prey is the charred remnants of a campfire set along a trail in the heart of this tinder-dry wilderness area .
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Conservationists are unhappy about the prospect of conifer plantations taking over more wilderness areas of Britain.
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Participants will also visit the adjacent Oceano sand dunes wilderness area .
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The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand.
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They take Missy on walks through cities and wilderness areas and have learned to forgo restaurant meals for picnics and room service.
■ VERB
cry
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One of the few voices crying in the wilderness was that of Farringdon member Gordon Wilson.
wander
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The prince wandered the wilderness for many years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, above all, they can make forests and wilderness , at the same time that they are making energy.
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Each sovereign state has enacted legislation establishing national parks, scientific or scenic reserves and wilderness areas.
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He pushed on in swamp and wilderness through Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi territories.
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In these ancient, mountainous regions - the Alps and the Carpathians - the City stopped abruptly, edging the wilderness .
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She had no companion in this snow wilderness with its circles of wire.
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So I walked very softly up into the wilderness that Chimaera inhabited.
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They have climbed mountains and canoed for eight-day stretches in isolated wilderness .
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To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks, the salmon and the mountaineers.