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Example sentences for: backwater

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Apart from pilgrims streaming to St. Francis’s Assisi and university students heading for Perugia, it has remained — at least in the eyes of foreign visitors — a very happy backwater.
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.
Science, which had been far more advanced than in Europe, was so gravely neglected that China became a technological backwater.
Billabong is first recorded in the 1830s in southeastern New South Wales as a name in the Wiradhuri language for a watercourse which flows after rain, and hence any backwater, blind creek, or anabranch left in the arm of a river, a pool which is left when the connecting stream dries up.
Silves is now just a dusty backwater, but the glorious setting remains.