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Example sentences for: heartland

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The Bay Area (as it is known) includes the Peninsula to the south, with the cities of Palo Alto and San Jose (the computer industry heartland of Silicon Valley and the fourth- largest city in California); the East Bay, across the Bay Bridge, which includes Oakland and the university town of Berkeley; and Marin County, San Francisco’s wealthiest suburb, with its mountains, forests, and pretty villages.
How else to explain headlines such as "Linda Lavin finds happiness in the heartland" and "Rhoda shattered as charity folds"?
Why is this whiz kid's paradise also the world capital of boondoggles, the heartland of the misconceived, misdesigned, and misbuilt?
Throughout Italy’s history, its northeast regions have linked the country to the exotic outside world of Byzantium and the Orient through Venice and its Repubblica Serena, and to the Alpine countries north of the Dolomites, while the plains of Emilia-Romagna from Ravenna to Parma provided an anchor to the heartland of the Po valley.
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.