Sentence examples for the backwater from inspiring English sources

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the backwater

noun

The water held back by a dam or other obstruction

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But Dayton chafes at the backwater implication.

But the backwater harboured exiles from Moscow and Leningrad.

Watson's is the spotty two-lane theough the backwater.

Ocoee is not the backwater it once was.

Wieners dipped into both scenes and returned to Boston, the backwater where he was born.

The overtopping of the backwater levee is by design, to relieve pressure.

If the backwater levee fails, much of that accounting fails with it.

There is an odd vacuum in the backwater capital of Vientiane.

In the backwater that was Norfolk, the turbulence of the century is only a distant roar.

The Tambaram hospital feels like the backwater tuberculosis sanitarium it once was.

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