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Example sentences for: backwater

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Aswan became a backwater following the decline of the Egyptian Empire, far removed from power bases at Alexandria and Cairo.
"Within ten years the country has changed from being an isolated backwater into the chief departure terminal for Europe's drug trade."
These two men were instrumental in orchestrating an amazing economic expansion that almost single-handedly converted the island from an underdeveloped backwater into a pace-setting industrial society.
For a half millennium or more, Madrid idled as a provincial backwater, rarely noticed on the arid central plains of Castile, until Felipe II plucked it from his royal cap in 1561 and proclaimed it the capital of Spain.
While Hong Kong remained a relative backwater in early days, nearby Guangzhou (Canton) was developing into a great trading city with connections in India and the Middle East.