back-water
Example Sentences
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"When he was coming up, it definitely was a back-water kind of practice," said Lavin.
From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 12, 2012
Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing traffic lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1914, when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
That little corner of the Schwarzwald will always remain to us a part separated from the rest of the world—a sort of back-water of fairyland.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
The back-water, where my bonnet had danced, no longer remained; all was carried clear out in one long rush down to the Cluag.
From The True Story Book by Lang, Andrew
