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Example sentences for: heartland

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They could not travel upriver because several sets of cataracts blocked passage and they did not know that the waters traveled from the heartland of Africa.
The left conjures up a heartland full of racists, misogynists, and religious maniacs.
As European power-brokering turned into World War I, Egypt became vital to the British, being close to the enemy Ottoman heartland, and allowing quick passage through the Suez Canal to her dominions in India, the Far East, Australia, and New Zealand.
His instinct is yes, he says, but since he's spent most of his life in Manhattan, he'd want to listen to Americans in the heartland and to military advisers to get their views.
hard upon forging their unexpected alliance amid the quadrennial panoply of the Grand Old Party's nominating convention, our protagonists, acting in unavoidable response to the exigencies of a contest dominated by the incumbent's strategy and tactics, set out for the heartland in a manner similar to his, where, beneath storm-riven skies suggestive of incunabular Turners, the desperate reality of their task began to reveal itself, rising like a black basalt orogeny from the soft soils of internecine enthusiasm.