heartland

Example Sentences

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There are already fears that China's industrial heartland, which serves as the factory of the world, will be impacted in the long term if this crisis continues.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Last year saw sectarian violence in the country's coastal Alawite heartland and in southern Syria's Druze-majority Sweida province.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

The clashes occurred in the heartland of the Alawites - an offshoot sect of Shia Islam which Assad belongs to.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025

The succession of dynastic governments that ruled over China’s heartland were sometimes ethnically Han, and sometimes northerners—Mongols and Manchus especially—who ruled empires now referred to as “Chinese.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

This is the heartland, here, I’m leading a pampered life, may the Lord make us truly grateful, said Aunt Lvdia, or was it thankful, and I start to eat the food.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood