hinterlands
Example Sentences
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Her hinterlands are a series of specific places “that have largely slipped under the news agenda and yet are central to the main story.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
I had not seen another person for quite a while as I biked deeper into the hinterlands of the island, connecting to East End Light Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
You can still find reruns in cable’s hinterlands or purchase the series, but the public seems resolved to acknowledge its impact without revisiting episodes in full.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 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
So Dany had dispatched her tiny khalasar to subdue the hinterlands, under the command of her three bloodriders, whilst Brown Ben Plumm took his Second Sons south to guard against Yunkish incursions.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
