hinterlands
Example Sentences
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Philo subscribers can watch it on demand, and episodes can still be encountered on a hunt through the cable hinterlands.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
She demonstrated her skill and courage while on the run from Nazi snipers in the hinterlands of Croatia and Slovenia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
To call them weird, to banish them to the monstrous hinterlands, is to claw back the ability to define whether behavior is prosocial or antisocial, to determine what principles we should be conforming to.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2024
His involvement snowballed and Mr Diriye soon found himself navigating from the porous frontier with Ethiopia through Somalia’s rural hinterlands.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024
Even after the conquistadors seized Qosqo, the empire regrouped in the hinterlands, where it fought off Spanish forces for another forty years.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
