Example sentences for: hinterland

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

  • As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the News: The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the "hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee," remarking on the "astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods."

  • If it is, it will be due in no small part to the efforts of a few of the older missionaries in the hinterland.

  • The once-marshy plain of Kanto is Tokyo’s hinterland, the region where the feudal warlords set up their military bases and administrative headquarters.

  • The second is the city of Cape Town, where his family returned after a stint in the hinterland and where dead babies rot in brown paper packets.

  • The peninsula’s seaside resorts have good beaches among the pine groves, first-class camping and water-sports facilities, and are a base for excursions and hikes into an attractive hinterland of rolling hills.


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