“The green grass of the kingdom flashed past within a few minutes then we were flying overtop the desert badlands.”

“Once the attack was foiled, the column moved forward and eventually emerged on the plains beyond the badlands.”

“He takes her deep into the desert badlands, knowing that the ruler's henchmen will stop at nothing to rescue her and bring her back.”

“Policy wonks admire Bihar, an eastern badland that is getting its act together.”

“In popular mythology, moors are a bogland, a badland, an undiscovered bourn from which travellers risk failing to return.”

“For Clark, today, the realm of unbounded expression is a place of danger, a badland without co-ordinates from which you might never emerge.”