How to Use hinterland in a Sentence

hinterland

noun
  • The world out there is a kind of hinterland that isn’t well known.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
  • For those who came from the hinterland, though, the water seemed not so terrible.
    — Jane Perlez, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Their topsy-turvy economy’s hinterland, the drug trade, is a long way away.
    — Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • This was not some far-off game in the hinterlands that the committee members could only judge by the score.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2025
  • But Putin needs to give the hinterland a better reason for their problems.
    — Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 4 May 2018
  • And yet, something in Prince must have known to put his trust in solid folks with wild aesthetic hinterlands.
    — Sally Singer, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Or head into the hinterlands to ogle at some of the country’s top châteaux and wineries dotted along the Gironde.
    — Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Some disappeared from the city and were swallowed up in the Yeoman hinterland.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Trade with the hinterland stopped as these coastal centers now preferred to trade with the Europeans.
    — Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The menu is top-tier and uses as much local produce from the ocean and nearby hinterland as possible.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Whole armies could be hidden, fleets of warships could vanish on the high seas, and even whole cities could be built in the hinterland and kept secret.
    — David Szondy may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2025
  • There are still, however, millions of miles of dirt roads in what the French call arriere-pays—the hinterland.
    — M. R. O’Connor, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Much has been said about the need to help these cities, to spread more of Boston’s economic success out to the hinterlands.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The concrete for new expressways was laid as Chicago’s hinterland was in the midst of a building boom.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2022
  • But being productive was a means to an end, a way to frolic in the hinterlands of wuliao for as long as possible.
    — Connie Wang & Lily Fulop, Refinery29, 7 Apr. 2020
  • But being productive was a means to an end, a way to frolic in the hinterlands of wuliao for as long as possible.
    — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The Commonwealth, as inhabitants call it with faint pride, is large enough to have a hinterland.
    — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Sellew is a bold new voice, using sharp, stylish prose to explore the hinterland of contemporary mating.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
  • To be sure, there were old estates along the waterfront and in the backcountry, and artists and writers had been putting down roots in the hinterland for decades.
    — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The city’s location allows for easy day trips both to the hinterlands and to other coastal cities, and to the Côte d'Azur.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • Unable to afford rent or food in cities and, with public transport shut down, thousands of them have trekked the hundreds of miles to their homes in the hinterland.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 16 Apr. 2020
  • It's since been reported that the pair have bought a $4 million home in the Byron Bay hinterland.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 26 July 2022
  • To anyone who has toured wineries in Tuscany, the setting rings of the Italian hinterland.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The woman who has fled her own hinterland for the ragged fringe of London discovers a dreamlike city of melancholy magic.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • But that thinking from around a decade ago was eclipsed by the sense that waiting is often better; Broadway shows need time to build their brands in the hinterlands.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The purge in Los Angeles last year fanned promoters out into the dusty hinterlands in search of somewhere to put down stakes.
    — Sebastion Montes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2017
  • The purge in Los Angeles last year fanned promoters out into the dusty hinterlands in search of somewhere to put down stakes.
    — Sebastian Montes, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 5 May 2017
  • In this picture Planet Nine might have been an outbound world that plowed through enough debris to slow down and get trapped in the solar hinterlands.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2018
  • News of trouble in the Florida hinterlands could take nearly a month to reach the Oval Office.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In the eyes of Judeans, Galilee was the hinterland, from which a trip to the Temple usually took several days.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 4 Apr. 2021

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