hinterlands

Example Sentences

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Philo subscribers can watch it on demand, and episodes can still be encountered on a hunt through the cable hinterlands.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

Now, as the sport’s leaders wonder how many other Cignettis might be out there laboring in gridiron hinterlands, the real Cignetti is simply reloading for next season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

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

"And then they'll read other books and explore perhaps further into the hinterlands of Scottish literature."

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

Although prison guards and their legitimate children belong by blood to the core class, they are fringe functionaries locked away for most of their working lives in the freezing hinterlands.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden