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Example sentences for: backwater

How can you use “backwater” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

"Within ten years the country has changed from being an isolated backwater into the chief departure terminal for Europe's drug trade."
Wandering the streets of this provincial backwater, I discovered yet again that Washington is all action and no Talk .
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.
Silves is now just a dusty backwater, but the glorious setting remains.
Science, which had been far more advanced than in Europe, was so gravely neglected that China became a technological backwater.