How to Use hinterland in a Sentence

hinterland

noun

• The city’s location allows for easy day trips both to the hinterlands and to other coastal cities, and to the Côte d'Azur.
  — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Or head into the hinterlands to ogle at some of the country’s top châteaux and wineries dotted along the Gironde.
  — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
• Much has been said about the need to help these cities, to spread more of Boston’s economic success out to the hinterlands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• For those who came from the hinterland, though, the water seemed not so terrible.
  — Jane Perlez, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• In the eyes of Judeans, Galilee was the hinterland, from which a trip to the Temple usually took several days.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 4 Apr. 2021
• It's since been reported that the pair have bought a $4 million home in the Byron Bay hinterland.
  — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 26 July 2022
• There are still, however, millions of miles of dirt roads in what the French call arriere-pays—the hinterland.
  — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2019
• But Putin needs to give the hinterland a better reason for their problems.
  — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
• The concrete for new expressways was laid as Chicago’s hinterland was in the midst of a building boom.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022
• In the vast, red-dirt hinterland of Australia, over 400 miles northwest of the shores of Sydney, rainwater is scarce.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• In Veneto, which includes Venice and its flat, agro-industrial hinterland, the turnout was 57%, with 98% of the votes in favour.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2017
• To be sure, there were old estates along the waterfront and in the backcountry, and artists and writers had been putting down roots in the hinterland for decades.
  — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
• And yet, something in Prince must have known to put his trust in solid folks with wild aesthetic hinterlands.
  — Sally Singer, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2018
• Unable to afford rent or food in cities and, with public transport shut down, thousands of them have trekked the hundreds of miles to their homes in the hinterland.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 16 Apr. 2020
• At the center of this crisis in the hinterland is the state of Uttar Pradesh — home to 230 million people, more than the population of Brazil.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• But that thinking from around a decade ago was eclipsed by the sense that waiting is often better; Broadway shows need time to build their brands in the hinterlands.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• In this picture Planet Nine might have been an outbound world that plowed through enough debris to slow down and get trapped in the solar hinterlands.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2018
• From the forests of the Amazon to the suburban hinterlands of America, from the depths of the oceans to Southeast Asia’s mangrove swamps, millions of species are being lost.
  — Wired, 30 Nov. 2019
• The purge in Los Angeles last year fanned promoters out into the dusty hinterlands in search of somewhere to put down stakes.
  — Sebastian Montes, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 5 May 2017
• On the horizon the enormous dunes, called sea mountains, protected the hinterland from the brutality of the North Sea.
  — Dorthe Nors, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2022
• The Commonwealth, as inhabitants call it with faint pride, is large enough to have a hinterland.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 18 Sep. 2017
• But being productive was a means to an end, a way to frolic in the hinterlands of wuliao for as long as possible.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020
• That role was largely lost after 1945, as the Soviet Union was not a naval power; the heart of the cold war lay on central Europe’s plains and in third-world hinterlands.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The woman who has fled her own hinterland for the ragged fringe of London discovers a dreamlike city of melancholy magic.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Both approaches are attempting to solve the same question: how to extend the reach of e-commerce into the hinterlands.
  — Brian Baskin, WSJ, 22 May 2017
• As the infections spread across the city, claiming lives on a huge scale, panicked Lagosians began to flee to the hinterlands, taking the disease along with them, to places even less prepared to deal with it.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Later, she was confined for nearly a decade to a bleak township deep in South Africa’s rural hinterlands, where police twice set fire to her house.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
• Now consider that these hubs were once hinterland, mere fringes of an expanse rich in conifer forests, meadows, rivers and wetlands, all of it teeming with game.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2019
• Migrants from India's vast hinterland are now returning to its megacities in search of jobs, and the streets are packed with traffic.
  — David Rising, ajc, 7 Mar. 2022
• Ships loaded with vehicles For miles back into the hinterland the roads have been lined with trucks and other mechanized equipment.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024