How to Use province in a Sentence
province
noun- They left the city for life in the provinces.
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On the eastern edge of the province, whales ply the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
— Outside Online, 25 July 2022 -
Such things, after all, are the province of the city of man.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 June 2020 -
The province, the size of Lebanon, has been the beating heart of the rebellion for years.
— Fox News, 16 Sep. 2018 -
Streets east and west are named for states or provinces.
— Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018 -
The team had been among the top-performing in the province of Saskatchewan before the crash.
— Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 6 July 2018 -
The same province will embark on a wider cleanup next month.
— Echo Huang, Quartz, 21 June 2019 -
In March, one person in the province was killed and homes were torched, the news agency said.
— Joe Sterling, CNN, 9 June 2018 -
That still sort of is the province of the print community.
— Eric Johnson, Recode, 4 Oct. 2018 -
The realm of lust is rightly a province of my domain, the fourth circle, that of Greed.
— Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021 -
Since then saozi noodles have been a staple dish in the province.
— Rachel Yang, Los Angeles Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017 -
The remoteness of the towns in the province is partly a quirk of history.
— Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2021 -
Kandahar is one of the most volatile provinces in Afghanistan.
— Fox News, 18 Oct. 2018 -
The much-photographed lighthouse used to be a church tower and now provides one of the best views in the province.
— Sydney Baker, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2022 -
The recent quakes were centered in the town of Defne, in Turkey’s Hatay province.
— Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023 -
The result: a modern province with Almere as its green heart.
— Lea Lane, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 -
Caldas is a province in the southwest of the Paisa region in Colombia.
— Isa Zapata, Bon Appétit, 3 Oct. 2023 -
All this comes after the royal couple's sporty first day in the province.
— Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2019 -
Much like the rest of the world, the province has been dealing with soaring case numbers due to the omicron variant.
— Dave Skretta, ajc, 6 Jan. 2022 -
Obviously, camp didn’t stay the province of the wealthy.
— Mac Schwerin, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019 -
Adana province opened three restaurants to survivors of the earthquakes.
— John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023 -
Tens of thousands more have fled to calmer provinces near Khartoum.
— Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023 -
Palmer was killed in a firefight in Iraq’s Anbar province.
— Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021 -
Naimat said patients from rural parts of the province blame the government for their injuries and the deaths of loved ones.
— Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020 -
Idaho is part of the Basin and Range tectonic province.
— Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020 -
Guilin is a city in Guangxi province and a roughly 1,200-mile drive southwest of Beijing.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024 -
Much of the focus is on Basra, which is Iraq’s richest province.
— The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018 -
The rebels are then expected to have no choice but to head to the northern province of Hajjah.
— NBC News, 16 June 2018 -
If so, the 2026 election in Quebec could become the testing ground for a third independence referendum for the mainly French-speaking province.
— Ian Bremmer, TIME, 25 Oct. 2024 -
Iran's military said the strikes targeted military bases in Ilam, Khuzestan and Tehran provinces.
— Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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