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
Between us and the Sacandaga lay one of those grassy gulleys where, in time of flood, back-water from the Sacandaga spread deep.
From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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
