How to Use heartland in a Sentence

heartland

noun
  • We drove into Scotland's heartland.
  • Here are men and women in the heartland who played by the rules.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • Then there is Greenville, the heartland of the Delta blues.
    — Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
  • And a cut like that adds to the economic pain in the heartland.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The heart of skateboarding is alive and well in the heartland.
    — Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • My new mission in the Oregon heartland was to fill in the gaps.
    — Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Yes, basketball knows no time or boundary in the heart of the heartland.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2021
  • For all these reasons and more, we coastal VCs fell in love with the heartland.
    — Roy Bahat, Recode, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But this year, the city's ever-changing menus have taken him right back home to the heartland.
    — Taylore Glynn, Allure, 7 Aug. 2022
  • Wales has been a Labour heartland for decades, known for its coal mines and working class voters.
    — Chandelis Duster, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • In a strange way, heartland can be a genre, but Heartland can also be just a part of an idea.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • There are also plenty of World Cup fans in the heartland.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • In one city in the heartland, the letters have already started going out.
    — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The movie has done some of its best business in America’s heartland.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Many were groups of young men hailing from across the northern Hindu heartland.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The United States flies drones out of a base in the country’s arid heartland.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Beirut is a city of many faiths, but less than an hour to the south is Lebanon’s Shiite heartland.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • On these muddy fields in England’s rural heartland, a kind of cold war rages.
    — Euan Ward, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • American movies and movie stars don’t just resonate in the heartland after all.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Taliban had retreated overnight to their heartland in the south.
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 8 May 2021
  • Not everyone in the heartland is crying about higher oil prices.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The hills of this part of Northeast Italy are the heartland of many other types of wines.
    — Elisabetta Tosi, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • For most people in the Purépecha heartland, that prayer remains unanswered.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The river cuts through Italy's heartland, where 30% of its food is produced.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 23 July 2022
  • The American heartland wasn't destroyed in – in – in four years.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2024
  • Pilots in flight over the heartland have begun to report sightings of the balloon.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Jalisco, the heartland of tequila, offers herbal and citrus tones.
    — Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But Loose or American Sniper — his movies play to the heartland.
    — Melanie Brooks, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Here are six attractions across the heartland that sometimes prove the best reason to pull over is the weirdest one.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026
  • And across the American heartland, the factories of a new age take shape.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 1 Jan. 2026

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