How to Use the provinces in a Sentence

the provinces

plural noun

• Videos either are filmed in Moscow or sometimes in the provinces, where Orain hails from.
  — Luke Johnson, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• The story sees a lonely gay man in Manila take his beauty parlor and his niece, to the provinces to start a new life.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 May 2024
• Some of the provinces have helped cover this gap, but few of these stations feed into weather forecasts.
  — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 8 Mar. 2023
• About 25 miles in the distance, Mount Amiata looms, an extinct volcano set between the provinces of Siena and Grosseto and the source of the hot springs.
  — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
• Unmoved by the losses on his own side, much less on Ukraine’s, Putin has sent his minions to the provinces to scoop up more human material for the meat grinder of his war.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2023
• Exiled from Moscow to the provinces, he was arrested again in 1938 and died, of uncertain causes, in a transit camp.
  — Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• The populist Yellow Vest movement, initially ignited in the provinces by a rise in gas prices and a green tax on diesel, has become a major force in French politics.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 5 July 2023
• There are also Canadian locations in the provinces of Ontario and Ottawa.
  — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2024
• Morocco's Interior Ministry said early today that at least 296 people had died in the provinces near the quake.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2023
• In past decades, the court had at least occasionally stood up for personal freedoms, and for the rights of the provinces, acting as a modest brake on the arbitrary exercise of state power.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Trouble is, the populace is restless, the provinces fractious, and the tribes growing - all equally expect patronage to flow their way in return for the Barzanis keeping their grip on power.
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Life in Damascus and the provinces surrounding the capital is relatively peaceful.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• Families are also known to congregate at cemeteries to pay respect to deceased mothers, aunts, and grandmothers – particularly those who live in the provinces outside of the capital of Lima, said Gonzales.
  — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 12 May 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024