provincial

Example Sentences

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Last week lawmakers in Quebec voted unanimously to support a motion in the provincial legislature demanding that Rousseau step down.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

I hope that dialogue between the Trump administration, state governors, Canada’s provincial premiers and the leader of the official opposition party will generate an improved economic partnership of mutual benefit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The RN also showed its strength in small provincial towns, with victories in Montargis, Carcassonne and La Seyne-sur-Mer, though it lost the mayoralty of Villers-Cotterets north of Paris.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

The outages as well as regular shortages of food, medicine and other basics are spurring frustrations, with demonstrators vandalizing a provincial office of the Cuban Communist Party last weekend.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

Everyone who lived here said those things: provincial, self-satisfied, boring.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood