hinterland

[ US /ˈhɪntɝˌɫænd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɪntələnd/ ]
NOUN
  1. a remote and undeveloped area
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How To Use hinterland In A Sentence

  • The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.
  • We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts.
  • Gradually, their entrepôt function was being changed by the opening up of efficient transport links to their hinterland, and its transformation by manufacturing industry.
  • The youngster made a competent fist of it until Arsenal's second, but his team's problems lay in the hinterland behind him.
  • Hong Kong's hinterland around the Pearl River Delta in South China is one of the World's fastest growing manufacturing bases.
  • Victims were forced to live in sanatoriums on small islands or deep in mountainous hinterlands.
  • A vintage white Ambassador - that lumpish fifties-era sedan still found throughout India's hinterland - creeps along within the bright human throng.
  • Even more amazing is the figure for the Portlaoise hinterland which has under-gone a massive 41% rise in the number of people living there.
  • He pointed out that Knockmore was in the hinterland of a big town but there was no public transport.
  • A mule-powered railway was built to haul charcoal from the hinterlands to a loading pier on the south shore of the Toms River where coasting vessels took on cargo for Philadelphia and New York. Building Beachwood, Part One « Beachwood Historical Alliance
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