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

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