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
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
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
Asylum: that was what it was, a refuge, a shelter, a little back-water in the great whirlpool of overstrained, nervous modern life.
From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
He leaped ashore, and, at the same instant, with a tremendous back-water stroke, the oarsmen jumped the surf-boat back out of danger.
From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis
