in a backwater
Example Sentences
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Im scraped together low-value land in a backwater known for its seedy motels and opened the theme park — a decision his friends disparaged.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
Investigators found the remains of college student Charles Eddie Moore and lumber mill worker Henry Hezekiah Dee in a backwater of the Mississippi River in July 1964.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021
Couple that with a hackneyed fish-out-of-water premise involving a rich family forced to slum it in a backwater town and you’ve got a one-season sitcom at best.
From The Guardian • May 9, 2020
Consider, for example, “The Shot,” which opens in a backwater town, where a group of bored army officers spends long evenings playing cards.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2017
One of the car’s tires had come off and was floating in a backwater eddy of the Cocytus.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
