Sentence examples for useless land from inspiring English sources
"Cheap, eager labor, lots of useless land for landfill".
Bukharians preferred a terrace or patio to a lawn, which he called "useless land".
One can argue that he's part of a hallowed American tradition, whereby land speculators sell plots of useless land on the next "frontier," from the southern swamps to the western desert.
Opinion about the value of Florida to the Union was mixed: some thought it a useless land of swamps and horrible animals, while others thought it a gift from God for national prosperity.
And they can do so, according to these promoters, on bad or useless land rather than farmland, using passive open ponds or networks of contained-system tubes, all while fixing carbon dioxide into oxygen to neutralize the future impact of their fuels.
A final topsoil cover is placed, compacted, and graded, and various forms of vegetation may be planted in order to reclaim otherwise useless land e.g., to fill declivities to levels convenient for building parks, golf courses, or other suitable public projects.
But unlike sea lions, which have sturdy front fins and can easily drag themselves across a beach, harbor seals' fins are almost useless on land.
This used to be a healthy tobacco crop in Myrtleford but now it's just dry, useless, poisoned land.
We'll just let them get rid of some Arabs in Israel and make them part of the Palestinian state, and give them some other useless unused lands, while Israel keeps nearly all these settlers in their places - they call them suburbs - in the middle of East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Which partly accounts for the scheme he came up with during the early '70s to buy parcels of "gutterspace" — tiny, useless pieces of land, the remnants of surveying errors and zoning anomalies that New York City auctioned off to raise petty cash.
These minute, almost useless fragments of land, peculiar topographical gerrymanderings located on the periphery of or dead-smack in the middle of other properties, are found in every borough and are typically owned by the city.
