Example sentences for: backwaters

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

  • Her fictional heroines can name every indignity they've been subjected to since birth, and because they are usually bright young women from troubled families in poor island backwaters such as Antigua or Dominica, their list of injuries is long.

  • He points out that the Black Belt and Mississippi Delta, long regarded as racist backwaters, now have more black elected officials than any other region of America.

  • The Aegean Islands, which for centuries had been important ports on the trading routes, became the backwaters of this new transport network and the economies of several islands came close to collapse.

  • Like Dickens' Abel Magwitch, Jack Maggs has been exiled to the Australian backwaters.

  • The Anthology is a picture of what indigenous American music was like before the age of mass media, at a time when songs and ideas could only be transmitted by live performance and by rumor and yet circulated far and fast, among musicians isolated by race or poverty or lost in rural backwaters.


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