English example sentences with "backwater"

Tom lives in a backwater area.

Tom and Mary live in a backwater part of the country.

After his successes in America, the boss put him in a backwater for fear of being overtaken by him.

A slough is a swamp or shallow lake system, usually a backwater to a larger body of water.

In the sci-fi movie Jupiter Ascending, a more advanced space civilization looks to the Earth as a primitive backwater, somewhat like Papua New Guinea.

I grew up in a backwater.