backwater

You said the Culture was in a backwater, a dead end.

It now has a chance not to be a backwater.

Good help is so hard to find in backwater places.

"How did you ever find her on a little backwater world like this?"

For a time, the road followed a series of backwaters.

"She went to every backwater place you asked her to go," said a Bush campaign official.

Until a couple of years ago, the Japanese personal computer market was a backwater.

And now she was in some backwater part of the ship she'd never even seen before.

And then George came to a little backwater, leading off the lake.

No longer are schools a political backwater for state races.

What have they got to fear from a little girl on a backwater ethnic world?

In the backwaters of Louisiana, they found such a home.

Had the world ever cared much about life in those backwaters?

Yet progress comes to every backwater, especially when it is on television.

The other thing he had done was to turn Gateway itself into a backwater.

The band is probably best known for their 1994 radio hit "Backwater".

He had learned how much all backwater worlds were the same.

The Keep may be the most boring backwater in the world.

A thousand years ago Europe was a cultural and military backwater.

But the country remained for long a backwater in international relations.

You'll see many things like this in the backwaters of the galaxy.

"My friend is married to a Chinese woman, and they know all the backwaters," he said.

With one between his own lips which felt so dry, he went down the backwater.

Once at the center of Western civilization, it now seems a backwater.

Too few to waste on such a backwater planet, certainly.