How To Use Backwater In A Sentence

I'm now counting down to my 38th birthday, and then the second anniversary of the inception of this web backwater.
It seems the Yellow Sword prefers the quiet backwater streams to the large deep rivers.
But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The South at one time was viewed as the cultural backwater of the nation, both as an economic liability and a social embarrassment.
This one tide won't lag behind because of ours and backwater.

It's a quiet residential backwater surrounded by old Victorian terraces.
Once an obscure backwater of the publishing business, computer books have gone mainstream.
Britain could become a political backwater with no serious influence in the world.
The joint venture calls for the companies to explore three sections in the Kara Sea, an icebound coastal backwater north of central Russia.
Not that there was anything to see in this quiet rural backwater. ALL ABOUT LOVE
The book's worldwide critical success helped contextualise the region for a huge audience; illuminating the caste system and conveying how central the rivers and backwaters are to the area's everyday rhythms of life.
‘An oceanarium in the backwaters is under serious consideration,’ said the Mayor, C. M. Dinesh Mani.
Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
Roberts meant a lot to a vast audience of Pentecostals, those believers ridiculed - by atheists, agnostics and mainstream religions alike - as backwater snake charmers, poor, uneducated serfs lucky to scrape up enough money to pay the rent on the shack and procure "vittles" for Sunday dinner. Lonestartimes.com
This coupled with the saline water intrusion completes the process of contamination of the Kuttanad backwaters.
The Ivory Billed Woodpecker lives on, found by a man canoeing alone in the backwaters.
Not that there was anything to see in this quiet rural backwater. ALL ABOUT LOVE
The locals said that the backwaters flow in at different times each day.
Despite the amount and high quality of archaeological research into Roman Britain, Roman Britain studies remain something of an archaeological backwater.
Flash forward two decades and the documentary section had become a sleepy backwater, with an antediluvian selection committee seemingly oblivious to new currents in documentary film.
She had never been stuck in a dull suburban backwater like this. AFTERMATH
A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
Pike spawn during March and April in the shallow weedy margins of lakes and in the tiny overgrown backwaters of rivers.
Domestically, he has overseen the development of his country from an imperial backwater to a cutting-edge competitor.
The Bahamas' capital, with its large, sheltered harbour, has swung many times from boomtown to backwater and back again in its rather raffish past.
Some are willfully blind, some are blinded by their immersion in backwaters of popular culture dominated by the likes of Coulter or O'Reilly or Limbaugh. Balkinization
She had never been stuck in a dull suburban backwater like this. AFTERMATH
The state successfully marketed its serene backwaters, well-managed wildlife sanctuaries, ayurvedic treatments, temple festivals and boat races to attract the high-spending tourist. Kerala: Gateway Of India
At the tidal swamps, the shore is a low, narrow levee separating the waters of the creeks from the backwaters of the swamps.
The world's fourth largest atoll, Ulithi was a large staging area for the US during WWII, but has become a quiet backwater with many barrier reefs islands and only a small population living on just four isles.
A couple of days later we headed south via boat along the inland canals of the Keralan backwaters.
What the deuce are you doing here, gracing our quiet backwater? DEVIL'S BRIDE
It's a joy to find this young author coming into his own, and bringing the craft of science fiction out of the backwaters where it's been caught lately between the regressive drag of publishers marketing to a "safe" readership and the bewildering promises of change and growth offered by postmodernism in all its forms and formlessness. Embassytown by China Miéville – review
The canoe glided through an opening not much more than twice its own width, and into a hidden backwater running parallel to the river.
It then flourished from 1925 to 1932 in Dessau, an industrial backwater where the school's first director, Walter Gropius, built its image-making headquarters (see illustration on page 25); and it ultimately but vainly sought refuge in cosmopolitan Berlin, where it closed in 1933, when Hitler took power. The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)
You couldn't have missed it, not even in that backwater of yours. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Until the Netherlands transferred sovereignty to an independent Indonesia in December 1949, West Papua remained an economic and administrative backwater.
In the age of globalization it is an economic backwater.
Wild rice could have been found in the deeper waters of the backwater sloughs along with white water lily, American lotus, arrowleaf, duckweeds, and pondweed.
Once in England, he based himself at East Molesey, then as now a sleepy little suburban backwater on the Thames, popular with rowers and weekend day-trippers because of its proximity to the palace of Hampton Court.
Some of them are of Maine origin and have never had occasion to escape to other parts of the country -- sannup, let's say, from Abnaki Indian, "loosely used throughout Maine for a boy-child and usually a mischievous one," coodle, ` a small cove or backwater. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
Once an economic backwater, the country was dubbed ‘the Celtic Tiger’ in the 1990s as business took off.
That such bloodshed occurred in today's Gujarat is surprising, for the state is no economic backwater but is, instead, one of India's most dynamic states.
The rural backwater was in the throes of a new cultural phenomenon: rave, and the ravers ' drug of choice, ecstasy.
If I stayed at Park Lane it would be to wither away in a backwater as Geoffrey's factotum. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
I can see his point on cutting the bureaucracy, but the near inevitable outcome is that the money saved will not be spent here and we will descend further and further into an even shabbier social and economic backwater.
the country is an economic backwater
In the other are those who forcefully reject new tourist attractions, preferring to remain a quaint backwater, undisturbed by 21st-century concerns.
Pammel Creek originally drained into one of these wetlands but was channelized between 1914 and 1927 to join Bluff Slough, a backwater of the Mississippi River just to the southwest of the site.
I don't know what YOU'D call 'boomin', '" he said gloomily; "I suppose you two men sitting here comfortably by the fire, without caring whether school keeps or not, would call two feet of backwater over one's claim 'boomin'; 'I reckon Stories in Light and Shadow
Being raised by both his mother in Maryland and his great-grandmother in the rural backwaters of North Carolina has given him, he says, a sense of perspective.
Such creeks can contain healthy fish populations, but they are not as easily renewed as those of the big rivers and adjacent backwaters.
It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.
Iza dug up the red-rooted pigweed and headed for a marshy area beside sluggish backwater and found scouring-rush horsetail ferns and, farther upstream, soaproot. The Clan of the Cave Bear
They would have bought the pieces here and there—and then when they've got everything together, they have it all shipped out to some backwater shipyard down in the bottom of the Sag Arm, or maybe tucked away in the Coalsack—we hear rumors about places like that. Doctor’s Orders
If the fear of front and rocks, life can only ever be a backwater.
The urban street and the rural village are both, in their different ways, educational backwaters.
Some institutions interstate cling to the idea of Queensland being a cultural and economic backwater, as they have done for a decade or more now.
Chicago, the third-largest city in the nation, has only produced a few rap artists of note, and therefore remains a hip-hop backwater.
Located in the dusty backwater of Datong, a provincial city in northeast China, the movie depicts a global village in the throes of millennial malaise.
We tied the boat up in a quiet backwater overnight.
Wild rice could have been found in the deeper waters of the backwater sloughs along with white water lily, American lotus, arrowleaf, duckweeds, and pondweed.
We tied the boat up in a quiet backwater overnight.
Having stagnated for untold ages in an evolutionary backwater, they now had the modern world thrust suddenly upon them.
We tied the boat up in a quiet backwater overnight.
The presidential candidate backwatered on several promises when he got into office.
In the wake of his work, and that of his fellow mango gangsters, Miami has progressed from a culinary backwater to one of America's top 10 gastro-cities.
We hugged the right side to avoid the rapid swirl; there was no backwater at the points, and hard work was required to prevent our being swept against the boulders of gneiss, schiste, and pudding-stone edging the shores and stretching into the stream. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
While portrayed in bourgeois European circles as a peaceful backwater of the English Channel, Jersey's true origins are of conquest and domination.
At the southern tip of the city, another enterprising group is trying to market the placid backwaters of rural Kerala.
We went straight to hire a launch with a wonderful deck covered with a canopy and surfed the backwaters for 6 hours from Alleppey to Kumarkom bird sanctuary. Spiced Pineapple Orange Drink
There is no better initiation into its mysteries than a cross-country trip, taking in its biggest cities, its esoteric backwaters, and its most impressive pieces of natural architecture.
Here, in this small, unpretentious rural backwater on the right bank of Bordeaux's Gironde river, was where those who favoured silky, supple clarets bought their wine.
Most companies today are political backwaters, where yes-men and corporate kiss-ups are still the ones who get recognized and promoted.
Dusk falls quickly in the backwaters though, which means dinner by lamplight back on the boat.
Beaches are parceled out along a convoluted coastline equal to France's in length, and islands range from backwaters where the boat calls twice a week to resorts as cosmopolitan as any in the Mediterranean.
Researchers lifted a trammel net full of large Asian carp from Swan Lake, a backwater lake of the Illinois River, in 2001.
Google doesn't have to go to India's backwaters to interact with the computerless masses. Snapshots on Startups
The air at this season is full of great birds -- eagles, buzzards, hawks, and falcons -- soaring in circles to look out for prey among the flocks of wild swans, white geese, bernicle geese and brent geese, duck and teal, which cover the backwaters and the marshes and shallow lagoons. Pioneers in Canada
These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
The traditional Chinese nets, landscapes and huts by the river or backwaters are evocative of a child's fascination with the wonders around her.
Sometimes ingenious Bible expositors have led whole generations of clergy down obscure backwaters of scriptural exegesis.
Gentle but steady water movement produced by slow flow through lakes and meandering backwater stream channels provides aeration and slow accretion of alluvial sediments.
In this brief sample of a much longer passage, the heroine rides home from San Francisco to Sacramento through untouristed California farmland and backwater Main Streets: The Unclosed Circle
I knew, of course, that seasnakes could swim and anacondas lurked the backwaters of the Amazon, but I was unprepared for how fast tiny green snakes could get from a riverbank to us.
Alternative culture is something the boys can retreat into; its arcane byways and fascinating backwaters are a mirror in some ways of Brooklyn itself.
The energetic wit and laddish humour of one so young pervades this hair-brained adventure, set in the sleepy backwaters of a small Swedish country town.
They are purposely hidden away at backwater college campuses, where the monstrously large football mesomorphs must cavort under the searing sun, be-helmeted, in all their hot and bulky pads.
It is entirely possible that our backwater of a planet is literally the only one that has ever borne life.
Richard says that to be consistent I should regard Australia in its entirety as a backwater of self-congratulation.
Although that revolt failed, the brutal Ottoman reprisals, which killed 30,000 Bulgarians, drew Europe's attention to what had previously been considered an Ottoman backwater.
Copying this colorful festival, there have been other boat races in the backwaters and rivers of Kerala for the purpose of attracting foreign tourists.
Not that there was anything to see in this quiet rural backwater. ALL ABOUT LOVE
Europe had become a quiet backwater of the world.
Although tourist brochures may still sell Ireland as a sleepy backwater of Europe, recent prosperity has brought rapid modernisation and an enforced embracing of multiculturalism.
But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater. THE LAST TEMPTATION
There is no wisdom in putting a road for said heavy traffic through the deep backwater of the Slater Creek basin into Pitt Street.
A couple of wooden rowboats are moored in a quiet backwater.
He grew up in a rural backwater.
The sounds are of a rural backwater waking up: crowing, barking, scratching, whining.
For the adventurous traveller, there is no end to the things that he/she can do in the land of sun-kissed beaches and idyllic backwaters.
Second, some families have migrated to the rural backwaters of other states where farms could be purchased at much lower prices.
The north cannot continue as an economic backwater.
It was to exclaim that I'm not staying in this backwater, but getting back on that plane to NYC asap.
Before 1965, cosmology was a quiet backwater of science, almost a little ghetto where a few mathematicians could play with their models without annoying anybody else.
There is a whole lot more poverty and bad stuff out there and it is not just our outlaying regions and backwater communities. Election Central Morning Roundup
France's Great Leap Forward was an achievement of the planning of the post-war era; measures will have to be taken to prevent it sliding again into an economic backwater.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Certainly in one sense they feel that he has taken Malaysia from being an economic backwater to the forefront of the global stage, particularly with the war on terror.
In the unknown world, I might actually be some sort of nacent angel, or some kind of pupae-stage hero, some kind of backwater demigod. Apology of a Madman
But there was no apparent reason for anybody to harbour idle curiosity about this particular backwater. THE LAST TEMPTATION
THESE LITTLE acacia and bird cherry trees look a little out of place as they rock in tandem with the waves in the backwaters.
Were he posted somewhere out-of-the-way, to a backwater, he might already be seriously considering a transfer to the Foreign Office. THE LAST RAVEN
Either way, the one-handed rod was the common denominator for chunking topwater plugs, spinnerbaits and subsurface lures amid the sloughs and backwaters.
As the limited education of these people depresses their wages, their sense of being stuck in an economic backwater breeds resentment.
the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos
The backwoodsmen and the backwater would disappear from football's map forever. Times, Sunday Times
This means wind sheltered bays in lakes and the backwaters of rivers.
Market towns have become provincial backwaters.
I hope the rest of the country moves on, refusing to join you in your stagnant backwater of 18th century hokum.
A miracle arrived in this muddy Balkan backwater a few months ago.
Just further down the lane were three tiny cottages which always looked spruce in this quiet backwater and their small gardens were bright with flowers.
The presidential candidate backwatered on several promises when he got into office.
It's an unassuming place from the street, a quiet backwater in a Wellington suburb.
It's the end of a stealthy march by Lochaber clansmen through the quiet backwaters of the old district of Badenoch, a journey that took them towards the rich pastures, and rich pickings, of Morayshire.
Kerala is a lush state famous for its sun-drenched beaches and lazy backwaters. The Sun
It is a commonplace to say that Northern Ireland is a backwater in the modern Europe.
Now the calm river flows between the backwaters and wooded bluffs in an oversized valley.
Now the calm river flows between the backwaters and wooded bluffs in an oversized valley.
At every turn, Palin tanked when responding to the majority of the Media's inquiries – either coming across as illiterate, backwater or racist throughout her campaign and even beyond. Media shut out from Palin's Hong Kong speech
They concluded that the village was less of a sleepy backwater than previously thought and more intensively settled, with houses jostling for space.
The Macanese, who had seen five hundred years of modernization projects founder in their little backwater, were dubious.
They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine.
Our own unique domain suffix is vital if we are to be recognised as a vibrant new country, and not as an internet, e-commerce and economic backwater.
Overnight the bond market was transformed from a backwater into a casino.
The pool is so designed that its end wall is on a level with the backwaters, conveying the illusion of stretching into infinity.
No problem, they think, we'll just send him off to a quiet backwater like, say, Cuba.
They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
Like all the little monarchies scattered along the coast of the Gulf, Kuwait used to be a sleepy little backwater, getting by on pearl fishing and trade.
The hens lived here; so did the herbs that lined the steep bank that led down to the backwaters of the river Oglio.
As the central authority of the state has weakened, so it has become an economic and political backwater.
As a house with little seniority and less clout at the show, we had been relegated to the backwaters with other unfavored exhibitors. Peter Ginna: An Insider's Guide to the Characters of BookExpo America
Surely this was nothing but a backwater to civilization?
The state successfully marketed its serene backwaters, well-managed wildlife sanctuaries, ayurvedic treatments, temple festivals and boat races to attract the high-spending tourist. Kerala: The Gateway Of India
Overnight the bond market was transformed from a backwater into a casino.
Some three years after their last album, the boys and girls from Oregon are back with another set of long, stoned trawls through the backwaters of American folk, psychedelia and the avant-garde.
From Shreveport to Ferriday and all points in between, along the backwater burgs and the big city haunts, the myth of the Big Easy is examined in this exhaustive overview.
The bowfin prefers backwater lakes and rivers and probably came from the LaMoine or Illinois valley.
We may be in a godforsaken backwater, and this may be a tent, but it is my operations center, and I will have silence.
The region became more and more of an economic backwater.
Dublin exploded from a sleepy backwater to a city boasting some of the most expensive real estate in Europe. The Jig Is Up
The Islamic artifacts are substandard, which probably reflects the fact that Libya was a backwater for most of the postclassical period. After Gadhafi, Hope for Modernity
At the tidal swamps, the shore is a low, narrow levee separating the waters of the creeks from the backwaters of the swamps.
The aim of the trip is to go porknocking—that is, diamond prospecting—but the narrator is just as interested in the backwater bacchanals. Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
After years languishing in the backwaters of the world's stock markets, the wildcatters are back in business.
The temptation to sneer at unglamorous backwaters - and few of us can resist firing cheap shots at towns like Grimsby - seems to be overwhelming.
It's my third visit to his cramped attic workroom (‘studio’ sounds too grand for the cluttered space) in a quiet backwater near London's Victoria.
A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns.
The miserable little bekk who handled his paperwork and appointments was going to have a long career of waste reclamation ahead of him, on the most backwater Klingon world Koloth could find. Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
Charles Dickens called the graceless, dirty backwater born of controversy, greed, and deceit the “City of Magnificent Intentions.” The Viognier Vendetta
Innumerable lagoons, lakes, canals, estuaries and the deltas of 44 rivers make up the 900 km of backwater network of the State.
They inhabit swift streams, the backwaters of large rivers, brackish lagoons, and potholes.
We ventured out alone - taking the risk that the quiet backwater of Saqqez was outside the searchlight gaze of the moral police.
The backwater wackos are easier to understand- but the show maybe made me understand just a tiny bit why Boss Woman would let her husband maying try another. Big Love and other TV Notes
We took train rides to backwater stations in carriages with compartments and corridors.
Apart from taking tourists on backwater cruises aboard kettuvallams and cruise boats, the water bodies can be used for water skiing, surfing, kayaking, etc.
During a flood in the 1970s, the backwater broke its banks during a game against Swan Reach, forcing the match to be finished with one end increasingly under water.
They concluded that the village was less of a sleepy backwater than previously thought and more intensively settled, with houses jostling for space.
The network of canals, lagoons and rivers that forms the coastal interior of Kerala, from Kollam (formerly Quilon) to Kochi, are known as ‘backwaters’.
She had never been stuck in a dull suburban backwater like this. AFTERMATH
However, forests behind the levees, which we hereafter refer to as backwater swamps, are flooded only when the river level rises high enough for floodwaters to flow over the natural levees.
Set deep in the American South, this debut novel spans 80 years in the life of Mercury, Mississippi, as it evolves from sleepy backwater to a small city.
Deep in the old Alabama cotton belt, Mason's Bend is a minuscule hamlet tucked into a backwater of the Black Warrior river.
Local people in backwaters around the globe have bought into this scam out of ignorance. Lake Chapala and Much Ado About Nothing
Andros is a quiet backwater of the Bahamas which sits on the precipitous edge of the Tongue of the Ocean - a vast chasm of water which is wired up with sensors and monitors to allow trials to be recorded and analysed in detail.
The spectacle of a backwater state and nation, proudly propping up its weapons and military whilst languishing in pre-modern conditions and deifying its national leaders so as to maintain a totalitarian society is not just a joke. Bernard Rowan: Oh, My Korea
Subarctic – nival: dominated by spring snowmelt events, with peak water levels often the product of backwater from ice jams. Terrestrial Water Balance in the Arctic
Habitat of the shornosed gar includes lakes, swamps, and the calm pools and backwaters of creeks and rivers.
Cruising in the scenic backwater is simply a delightful experience mixed up with excellent houseboat experience, traditional cuisine, amazing sightseeing and serenity. houseboats in kerala of Kerala provide excellent accommodation with all modern amenities in the unique world of water, serenity and wonderment. BeanRocket Blog Communities Lastest Posts
They came to a neglected backwater of the Ottoman Empire, underpopulated and peopled primarily by local peasants who rarely had any “identity” beyond their local clan and their Christian or Islamic faith, and divided between 3 larger Ottoman districts. The Volokh Conspiracy » Israeli Version of Ship Incident
Suddenly, without warning, water came at them from two sides - the sea on one side, and stagnant, filthy water from a backwater on the other.
They can try to gussy it up all they want, but baseball remains essentially an idler's game, a backwater swimming hole where obsessives and slackers - and obsessive slackers - can hide out from the real world and float for a few hours at a time.
Navigable along virtually its entire length, the Nene has many locks and associated backwaters giving the river a wide range of habitats.
You couldn't have missed it, not even in that backwater of yours. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
At the southern tip of the city, another enterprising group is trying to market the placid backwaters of rural Kerala.
For keeping the drains clean, the project had included a recommendation to flush these with water drawn from the backwaters.
The urban street and the rural village are both, in their different ways, educational backwaters.
It was a bit of a sleepy backwater and became something very different.
Overnight the bond market was transformed from a backwater into a casino.
The time to explore the sloughs, backwaters and tributaries of the Fraser River in an attempt to seek out aggressively feeding cutthroat is upon us.
Afternoons were for lazy excursions into the backwaters, on horseback if the fancy took you, where mustachioed men are men and ride gaucho style, or less appealingly carry squealing pigs to market strapped across their bicycles.
Andros is a quiet backwater of the Bahamas which sits on the precipitous edge of the Tongue of the Ocean - a vast chasm of water which is wired up with sensors and monitors to allow trials to be recorded and analysed in detail.
Today Harcourt Terrace is an elegant, largely residential area and the street has become a quiet backwater since being closed to through traffic.
Come on FNW, Blackburn is not a titchy little backwater and deserves something better.
You couldn't have missed it, not even in that backwater of yours. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
The act of dismantling my rod was enough to entice the fat trout I had been luring - an old fish wise to flies and fishermen - out of his sheltered backwater and into the stream.

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