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
In the quiet back-water here—close to and yet out of the swifter stream—is another haunt of the jack.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
They turned a corner under the lee of a glaring saloon and found themselves in a small street which lay like a back-water off that thronged avenue.
From Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John T. McIntyre
