in a backwater
Example Sentences
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“You never expect this to happen, not in a backwater town like this,” he said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2021
Investigators found the remains of college student Charles Eddie Moore and lumber mill worker Henry Hezekiah Dee in a backwater of the Mississippi River in July 1964.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021
Couple that with a hackneyed fish-out-of-water premise involving a rich family forced to slum it in a backwater town and you’ve got a one-season sitcom at best.
From The Guardian • May 9, 2020
In May, Atria released a translation of his novel, “Britt-Marie Was Here,” about a passive-aggressive woman who leaves her cheating husband and ends up coaching a children’s soccer team in a backwater town.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2016
One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
