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Example sentences for: backwater

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"Within ten years the country has changed from being an isolated backwater into the chief departure terminal for Europe's drug trade."
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.
With the papacy in comfortable exile in Avignon since 1309, the brutal rule of the Orsini and Colonna families reduced Rome to a half-urban, half-rural backwater village.
In modern times the Sinai had become a backwater protected from the ravages of the modern world, and perhaps it would have remained one of the world’s undiscovered spots if it hadn’t been for one invention: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA).
Its riches were stolen long ago, the once-great river is a silted shadow of its former self, and Silves is now just a dusty backwater, but the glorious setting remains.