How to Use heartland in a Sentence

heartland

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  • We drove into Scotland's heartland.
  • The heart of skateboarding is alive and well in the heartland.
    — Michelle Bruton, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The United States flies drones out of a base in the country’s arid heartland.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • And they were mostly scattered across the U.S. heartland—not in big coastal cities.
    — Time, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The river cuts through Italy's heartland, where 30% of its food is produced.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 23 July 2022
  • But this year, the city's ever-changing menus have taken him right back home to the heartland.
    — Taylore Glynn, Allure, 7 Aug. 2022
  • The disease spread rapidly, first up and down the East Coast, then westward toward the heartland.
    — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 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
  • Everyone else was on the West Coast before heading to the heartland.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Pilots in flight over the heartland have begun to report sightings of the balloon.
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • On these muddy fields in England’s rural heartland, a kind of cold war rages.
    — Euan Ward, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • The show reaches deep into the American heartland, in body and in spirit.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
  • However, given the rise in crime since the pandemic, the issue has gained traction in the heartland.
    — Mark Meredith, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Ukraine is one of the world’s great breadbaskets, a vast heartland of wheat, corn, barley and sunflowers.
    — Howard G. Buffett, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Have her columns ever caused any friction at home in the Tory heartland?
    — Olivia Marks, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Vast stretches of our heartland remain mental-health-care deserts.
    — George Makari, The New Yorker, 13 July 2023
  • Backlash in the heartland Iowa’s Supreme Court has been notably progressive dating back to its first ruling, in 1839.
    — USA Today, 24 July 2023
  • Vying for the presidency requires candidates to schmooze their way through the heartland, and all roads run through Iowa.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Tornadoes and other severe storms have claimed the lives of at least 26 Americans across the U.S. heartland this weekend.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Eli Skrypczak played on his phone Monday afternoon while aboard an Amtrak train hurtling through the heartland of Missouri.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2022
  • In a year and a half of conflict, Ukraine’s heartland has been transformed into patches of wasteland riddled with danger.
    — Shera Avi-Yonah, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
  • Tillmans was born in 1968 in the industrial heartland of West Germany.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Jonathon Ramsey went for a heartland anthem, calling on George Thorogood’s help selling a Buick.
    — Jonathon Ramsey, Car and Driver, 24 June 2022
  • Yellowstone is popular in the heartland and Sun Belt, where it’s become not just a TV series but a lifestyle.
    — Sridhar Pappu, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Each has been paired with eight women, picked primarily from urban areas across the country, to see if lasting love can grow in the heartland.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Israel considers the West Bank the biblical heartland of the Jewish people.
    — Isabel Debre, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • In the Pashtun heartlands, women may rarely leave the house, but in other regions women work alongside men, and some even run shops or own property.
    — Ross McDonnell, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Many sectors of our economy rely on broadband—from farmers in the heartland to workers on Wall Street.
    — Mark Roberts, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Now, their itinerant odysseys had collided in this remote outpost in the heartland.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Israel views all of Jerusalem as its capital and the West Bank as the historical and biblical heartland of the Jewish people.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024

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