How to Use heartland in a Sentence
heartland
noun- We drove into Scotland's heartland.
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They’re spread from New England and the South to the heartland and the West.
— Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 June 2024 -
The heart of skateboarding is alive and well in the heartland.
— Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 -
The United States flies drones out of a base in the country’s arid heartland.
— Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023 -
See how jamón gets made in the heartland of Spanish pork.
— Jacqueline Dole, Washington Post, 24 July 2024 -
Beirut is a city of many faiths, but less than an hour to the south is Lebanon’s Shiite heartland.
— Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024 -
And they were mostly scattered across the U.S. heartland—not in big coastal cities.
— Time, 10 Nov. 2022 -
The river cuts through Italy's heartland, where 30% of its food is produced.
— Julia Horowitz, CNN, 23 July 2022 -
But this year, the city's ever-changing menus have taken him right back home to the heartland.
— Taylore Glynn, Allure, 7 Aug. 2022 -
The disease spread rapidly, first up and down the East Coast, then westward toward the heartland.
— Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022 -
Based on the timeless book of the same name by Buzz Bissinger, high school football reigns supreme over all in the depressed heartland.
— Matt Caputo, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2022 -
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek it as the heartland of their future state.
— Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022 -
The American heartland wasn't destroyed in – in – in four years.
— CBS News, 19 May 2024 -
The movie has done some of its best business in America’s heartland.
— Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022 -
Everyone else was on the West Coast before heading to the heartland.
— Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024 -
Pilots in flight over the heartland have begun to report sightings of the balloon.
— Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023 -
Many were groups of young men hailing from across the northern Hindu heartland.
— Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021 -
For most people in the Purépecha heartland, that prayer remains unanswered.
— New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022 -
On these muddy fields in England’s rural heartland, a kind of cold war rages.
— Euan Ward, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023 -
The couple jumped at the opportunity to have their own bookstore in the heartland of Spain.
— New York Times, 21 Apr. 2022 -
The show reaches deep into the American heartland, in body and in spirit.
— Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022 -
Hard work, passion, virtue and true grit mark the American heartland.
— Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2024 -
But a shift has taken place, into the Hindi heartland and more remote states.
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 July 2024 -
The hope was that Horizon would strike a chord among white older males in America’s heartland.
— Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2024 -
However, given the rise in crime since the pandemic, the issue has gained traction in the heartland.
— Mark Meredith, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022 -
The plot keeps coming back around to the plague of oversized locusts ravaging the American heartland.
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2022 -
Ukraine is one of the world’s great breadbaskets, a vast heartland of wheat, corn, barley and sunflowers.
— Howard G. Buffett, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022 -
Have her columns ever caused any friction at home in the Tory heartland?
— Olivia Marks, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2022 -
Houston is the nation’s petrochemical heartland and is home to a cluster of refineries and plants and thousands of miles of pipelines.
— Sydney Lake, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024 -
Houston, Texas’ largest city, is the nation’s petrochemical heartland and is home to a cluster of refineries and plants and thousands of miles of pipelines.
— Juan A. Lozano and Sean Murphy, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2024
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