How to Use heartland in a Sentence

heartland

noun
  • We drove into Scotland's heartland.
  • 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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