How to Use provincial in a Sentence

provincial

adjective

• She is too provincial to try foreign foods.
• She speaks with a provincial accent.
• His provincial attitude was a source of irritation for her.
• Most of Trần’s movie is—or appears to be—about food and drink, and it is set in, around, and near a manor house in provincial France.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• Turns out that some people can't get enough of this provincial life...
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2022
• The provincial government said in a statement that the 02 had conducted the raid.
  — ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
• Even the hardwood used in cooking comes from provincial farms.
  — Kathy A. McDonald, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• The quake, which was centered north of the Turkish provincial capital of Gaziantep, was felt as far away as Cairo.
  — Dallas News, 6 Feb. 2023
• There was provincial pride in the Texas victory in Kansas City.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• What makes its location so unique is its prime spot right inside the provincial park.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2023
• But the provincial capital, which was named in honor of the British queen, definitely has a wild side.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Many of them were given access to these banks when the state and provincial governments sold assets after the fall of the Soviet Union.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• Dozens of parties take part in the provincial elections in this nation of nearly 18 million people, many of the parties small and local.
  — Mike Corder, ajc, 15 Mar. 2023
• Kherson was the first major Ukrainian city to fall to the Russian invaders and is the only provincial capital to have suffered that fate.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Nov. 2022
• We were all really shocked at the provincial attitude of the New York audience.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• His love for off colors, iffy prints, and ersatz details recalls the provincial market stall.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• The provincial report said Xiaohuamei was sold twice within a year, the second time to the family of Mr. Dong, the man living next door in the video, and gave birth to eight children in the years after.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Afghan provincial police spokesperson said in a statement the crash had taken place overnight in a remote, mountainous region of Badakhshan in Afghanistan’s far north.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The school is located in Aybak, the provincial capital.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
• Like his Chinese counterpart, Frank had grown up in a provincial town that was starting to develop.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• The sportswear giant, based in the provincial German town of Herzogenaurach, declined to comment on the financials of the deal.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• Aid was slow to come to Peshtigo, thanks in part to its provincial anonymity in comparison to the much smaller but more publicized fire that happened in Chicago the same night.
  — Elisa Neckar, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Both the county and the provincial education office run grant programs to keep undersized schools such as Dochang afloat.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
• Cato crusaded against the money, squeezed out of Rome’s provincial subjects, that sloshed through politics.
  — Josiah Osgood, Time, 2 Dec. 2022
• The fires have strained the resources of provincial authorities, and the Canadian government has asked other countries to send help.
  — Annabelle Timsit and Ian Livingston, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
• Four children and a man are dead in Canada after they were caught by the tide while fishing in Quebec province, according to provincial police.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
• In Turkey, meanwhile, the quake damaged a historic castle perched atop a hill in the center of the provincial capital of Gaziantep, about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the epicenter.
  — Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Frazer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2023
• The provincial capital Karachi – Pakistan’s largest city, with a population of 22 million – has shut malls and businesses along the coast.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 14 June 2023
• All options are on the table, including declaring a provincial state of emergency, Smith added.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 6 May 2023
• Restrictions were also eased in a number of provincial capital cities over the weekend.
  — Fortune, 4 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024