back-water
Example Sentences
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"When he was coming up, it definitely was a back-water kind of practice," said Lavin.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 12, 2012
Municipal government has long been regarded as the great back-water of American democracy: a world of political patronage and special-interest jockeying in which policy discussions rarely move beyond synchronizing traffic lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1914, when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two elder ladies, who kept to Shoolbred, formed a sort of dam between these educated overflowings and the silent back-water in which Ingeborg and the German gentleman sat becalmed.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
The blades are then slightly inclined towards the bow of the boat, causing them to bury in the water, and at the same time not to present a square surface to back-water.
From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.
