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Example sentences for: backwater

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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.
The typical visitor is still older and wealthier than in most holiday destinations, but times are beginning to change — as they are across Portugal, no longer the forgotten backwater of Europe.
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.
By then, the city had become a stagnant backwater.
Any thought you might have had that you would be vacationing in a sleepy Mediterranean island backwater will quickly be dashed upon arrival at sprawling Son Sant Joan, Palma de Mallorca’s international airport.