How to Use heartland in a Sentence

heartland

noun
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  • We drove into Scotland's heartland.
  • They’re spread from New England and the South to the heartland and the West.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 30 June 2024
  • The contagion had moved from the coasts to the heartland.
    — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • The heart of skateboarding is alive and well in the heartland.
    — Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • My new mission in the Oregon heartland was to fill in the gaps.
    — Brian Smale, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The United States flies drones out of a base in the country’s arid heartland.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • See how jamón gets made in the heartland of Spanish pork.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • Beirut is a city of many faiths, but less than an hour to the south is Lebanon’s Shiite heartland.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
  • The Ducks are trying to earn a split in their trip to the heartland and beat the Pirates (1-2) for the second time in as many years.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2020
  • And they were mostly scattered across the U.S. heartland—not in big coastal cities.
    — Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The Taliban had retreated overnight to their heartland in the south.
    — Ian Pannell, ABC News, 8 May 2021
  • Yes, basketball knows no time or boundary in the heart of the heartland.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Sanchez put me in touch with a childhood friend named Seyf Sebaa, who agreed to show me around the heartland of the French tacos.
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The river cuts through Italy's heartland, where 30% of its food is produced.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 23 July 2022
  • More:'Race Night' is a compelling story of a gritty sport in the heartland.
    — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
  • But Loose or American Sniper — his movies play to the heartland.
    — Melanie Brooks, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But this year, the city's ever-changing menus have taken him right back home to the heartland.
    — Taylore Glynn, Allure, 7 Aug. 2022
  • In a strange way, heartland can be a genre, but Heartland can also be just a part of an idea.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The disease spread rapidly, first up and down the East Coast, then westward toward the heartland.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Based on the timeless book of the same name by Buzz Bissinger, high school football reigns supreme over all in the depressed heartland.
    — Matt Caputo, SPIN, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war and the Palestinians seek it as the heartland of their future state.
    — Ilan Ben Zion, ajc, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The American heartland wasn't destroyed in – in – in four years.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2024
  • The movie has done some of its best business in America’s heartland.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Everyone else was on the West Coast before heading to the heartland.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The heartland, much of the Western states, and virtually all of Alaska are seen to fall short.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 17 June 2021
  • Pilots in flight over the heartland have begun to report sightings of the balloon.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Many were groups of young men hailing from across the northern Hindu heartland.
    — Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Vast swaths of production in the Permian — the heartland of U.S. shale output — have been shut in.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The Penedès region in Catalonia, near Barcelona, is the heartland of Cava production.
    — Lela London, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Houston, the country’s petrochemical heartland, is home to a cluster of refineries and plants.
    — Claire Cardona, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2024

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