hinterlands

Example Sentences

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She demonstrated her skill and courage while on the run from Nazi snipers in the hinterlands of Croatia and Slovenia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

You can still find reruns in cable’s hinterlands or purchase the series, but the public seems resolved to acknowledge its impact without revisiting episodes in full.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

To call them weird, to banish them to the monstrous hinterlands, is to claw back the ability to define whether behavior is prosocial or antisocial, to determine what principles we should be conforming to.

From Slate • Oct. 28, 2024

His involvement snowballed and Mr Diriye soon found himself navigating from the porous frontier with Ethiopia through Somalia’s rural hinterlands.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

Demographically speaking, they lived in the hinterlands, remote and thinly settled; their lives were as far from Wari or Toltec lords as the nomads of Siberia were from the grandees of Beijing.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann