Sentence examples for peripheral backwater from inspiring English sources

In his Chatham House paper, "Sinai: The Buffer Erodes," Mr. Pelham wrote: "Perhaps for the first time since Israel's withdrawal 30 years earlier, the August 2012 killing of 16 Egyptian soldiers elevated North Sinai from a peripheral backwater to center stage in Egyptian consciousness.

Boston was a backwater.

But this subsidized backwater?

NEW ORLEANS — "Backwater".

Backwater status may be fleeting.

The city becomes a backwater".

Micronesia was considered a backwater.

Counter-intelligence was viewed as a backwater.

But Dayton chafes at the backwater implication.

What a backwater!

A stagnant, provincial backwater.