How to Use dystopia in a Sentence

dystopia

noun
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  • But as the episode unfolds, there’s an eerie sense of dystopia afoot.
    — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Its dystopia of choice is the Hollywood of the recent past.
    — Time, 15 June 2023
  • But what first seemed like a lonely dystopia has, for many,...
    — Matthew Kitchen, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Some claimed this was proof that Great Britain had become a dystopia.
    — Gabriel Hays, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And this is where the modern world veers toward dystopia.
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2019
  • And for a long while in this pandemic dystopia, no one dared budge.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • The episode knows that in the very near future, all sorts of factors will lead us into dystopia.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 5 June 2019
  • The dystopia of 2020 requires something stronger than cute song-and-dance routines.
    — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There are no vampires in this bleak dystopia — though one might be welcomed.
    — Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Audiences compared the event to The Hunger Games, a dystopia where the wealthy sit back as everyone else fights to the death.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 15 May 2024
  • The scorching summer blasted Parisians off the streets and turned the city into an eerie dystopia of what may lie ahead.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2019
  • The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its fourth season and, frankly, a dystopia that isn’t ours sounds nice right about now.
    — Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The overall effect is of a retro dystopia: Spotify in the world of Blade Runner.
    — WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
  • San Diego needs to invest in infrastructures, but not ones that lay the train tracks to dystopia.
    — Lilly Irani, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • This is the way dystopia happens, Years and Years says: Not with a bang, but with a series of exhausted shrugs.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 June 2019
  • There are some robots, a lot of Blade Runner–esque neon lights littered around the city, and a very vague sense of dystopia in the air.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Perhaps the most monumental of those lost women was Lexa from the CW's sci-fi dystopia show The 100.
    — refinery29.com, 22 May 2018
  • What if, instead of a dystopia, the Matrix was an Elysium?
    — Josh Wilbur, WIRED, 4 June 2019
  • Neal Shusterman zooms in on the razor-thin line between utopia and dystopia.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Online, though, commenters said the scene reminded them of a dystopia.
    — Miho Inada, WSJ, 13 July 2021
  • On top of that, some of the people that write these dystopias — not all of them — don’t really understand tech.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Things only get wilder as the song oozes on, with Eilish taking on the role of some kind of child tyrant in a suburban dystopia.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 Nov. 2019
  • But the fact of any performance is buoying; that artists, fans and venues have faith in an end to the dystopia that isolated them for so long.
    — Nathan Rizzo | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 29 July 2021
  • His world was less ToonTown than Stephenson’s and more gritty dystopia.
    — David Xing, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Those who can find a bit of escapist relief in these on-screen dystopias are fortunate.
    — Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Thankfully, despite all the dystopia on display, the film assures us there is light at the ends of those tunnels.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2018
  • Of course, the iPhone became the universal gateway into this dystopia.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2018
  • A lot of utopian thinking plays off the dystopia of our present reality.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But even putting aside the most extreme fears of an AI dystopia, previous incidents have provided plenty of reasons to worry about unintended large-scale calamities in the near term.
    — Bill Drexel, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2023
  • Part sci-fi, part fantasy, part mystery, Sweet Tooth offers viewers a post-apocalyptic dystopia unlike any other.
    — Matt Kamen, WIRED, 22 June 2024

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