How to Use the provinces in a Sentence

the provinces

plural noun
  • After the concert, my father sat me down and showed me photos of brick-block schools in the provinces.
    — Natalia Paradies, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Some key roads connecting the provinces are closed, officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The discovery was made in the provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
  • All connections have been cut off, according to a statement from the provinces.
    — Reuters, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Waves of 1 meter (3 feet) were monitored in the provinces of Sultan Kudarat and Sarangani.
    — ABC News, 7 June 2026
  • The premier of one of the provinces in South Africa impacted by weeks of heavy rains said that the damage there could be around $250 million.
    — Charles Mangwiro, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Almost from the first days of the restoration the provinces that had formerly belonged to the kingdom of Italy were in a state of revolutionary unrest.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Commenting on the success of the documentary back in France, Fleurantin points to its performance in the provinces.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Ituri was one of the provinces affected by a 2018-2020 outbreak of Ebola, the second largest on record.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 15 May 2026
  • During this time, Shakespeare likely wrote at home, or perhaps traveled the provinces with actors looking to escape the quarantine measures of the capital.
    — Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Secessionist uprisings in the provinces like Tatarstan or Bashkortistan or Chechnya.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Before the quake struck, the provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar had been affected by flash floods, which killed multiple people, per the BBC.
    — Latoya Gayle, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Its focus soon shifted to ousting dictator Slobodan Milosevic, using mass demonstrations and a general strike across the provinces to make its point.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
  • According to Cubadebate, a Cuban state media outlet, the tremor was felt in the provinces of Pinar del Río and Havana and on the Isle of Youth.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 8 June 2026
  • For decades the capital had worked like a slowly exploding atom bomb, inhaling poor Filipinos from the provinces and spitting them into distant suburbs, transforming rural barangays into slums of concrete and zinc.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.
    — Nelly Klos september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
  • As the study authors stated, the historical sources on the Roman Empire typically don’t include information about the provinces far from the capital.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Police seized one of the helicopters, 1,448 pounds of hashish, five firearms, cash and vehicles during raids in the provinces of Malaga, Almeria and Murcia.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The vineyards lie in the Canavese, on the sandy, pebbly slopes of the Ivrea morainic amphitheatre, a vast glacial relief north of Turin that spills into the provinces of Biella and Vercelli.
    — Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • The operator added that the island has set up microsystems of smaller, closed circuits throughout the provinces to route and ensure power for vital services such as hospitals, blood banks, water supply and food distribution.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The arrests were carried out in large cities including Bogota, Medellin and Cartagena, as well as in smaller cities in the provinces of Choco, Huila and Cesar.
    — ABC News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Anadolu Agency reported that security forces detained nine suspects in operations conducted in Istanbul as well as in the provinces of Konya and Kocaeli.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Later Friday, the Afghan government said 19 civilians were killed and 26 others injured when Pakistan struck the provinces of Khost and Paktika in southeastern Afghanistan.
    — Munir Ahmed, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The Turkish Riviera spans the provinces of Antalya and Muğla, where temperatures in September can still hit more than 86 degrees and the weather remains sunny and pleasant enough to enjoy a hot-weather holiday.
    — Kaitlyn McInnis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • With landfall in Cuba also likely, its government Sunday issued a hurricane warning for the provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Holguín.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Several highways connecting the capital to the provinces have been damaged by floods and landslides, forcing travelers to take long, circuitous routes to reach Kabul, Public Works Ministry spokesman Ashraf Haqshinas said Saturday.
    — Abdul Qahar Afghan, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Inocencio Impissa, a Cabinet minister and spokesperson for the government, said nearly 600,000 people had been affected in the provinces of Gaza and neighboring Maputo.
    — Charles Mangwiro, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued travel health notices for both the Congo and Uganda, advising Americans to avoid nonessential travel to the provinces surrounding the outbreak location.
    — Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 25 June 2026
  • The worst of the blazes affecting the United States are in the provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba and western Ontario, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center.
    — Michael Loria, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Pakistan had dismissed as propaganda a statement by Afghan government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid on Wednesday that the airstrikes in the provinces of Khost, Kunar and Paktika had killed 13 civilians — 11 children, one woman and one man.
    — ABC News, 11 June 2026

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