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
About half-way between the Pool and Makanda I remember seeing the entrance of a little back-water, on the left bank of the river.
From The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo by Gilson, Charles
Below Fulton, the stream is quite swift and the scenery more rugged, the evidences of disastrous spring overflows and back-water from the Rock being visible on every hand.
From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
