Example sentences for: provincial

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

  • In China even provincial museums can be treasure troves.

  • Also in the park is the provincial Legislative Building, with an interesting portrait gallery of Indian chiefs on the ground floor.

  • The extraordinary landscapes that Soutine painted around 1921 in the provincial town of Céret, with their swirling wreaths of thick paint and decentered structure, could easily be mistaken for early de Koonings.

  • A Wang, a Dong, a Pun, and not just a Pun, a Big Ho Pun--such is the provincial, infantile, cross-cultural fun available to anyone with a Manhattan phone book and a cold heart.

  • In that year, there were four emperors (Nero, Otho, Galba, and Vespasian), and the secret of the Roman Empire--that in a time of turmoil, a provincial commander with an army could march on Rome and become emperor--was revealed, but Rome's decline was a long way off.


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