hinterlands
Example Sentences
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The goodwill extended far into the hinterlands, where Union encouraged and counseled pine planters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
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
Some of that derives from the fact that Saba narrates in the present tense as he conducts his search through Georgia’s towns and hinterlands, giving the novel some forward thrust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
