inland
pertaining to or situated in the interior part of a country or region: inland cities.
British. domestic or internal: inland revenue.
in or toward the interior of a country.
the interior part of a country.
Origin of inland
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How to use inland in a sentence
Once the shoreline of a great inland sea, the sandstone here is roughly 320 million years old and reaches four miles below the surface.
A day’s drive from Chicago, exploring a very different Illinois | Carson Vaughan | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostThat probably means we’ll have to rethink the system, rip infrastructure out of the ground and move it inland where it’s safe from waves.
Environment Report: The High Cost of Getting Rid of Water | MacKenzie Elmer | February 8, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoThe situation is worse in southwestern and inland northwestern states.
Why South Africa stopped using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine | Rahul Rao | February 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe Abenaki people, who have migrated between this coast and inland Maine for thousands of years, share their continuing story at the Abbe Museum, which has a location both inside and outside the park.
The Ultimate Acadia National Park Travel Guide | Virginia M. Wright | February 8, 2021 | Outside OnlineConservationists are also worried about Pakistan’s inland waterways project, under which the Indus is to be developed for goods transportation by giant vessels.
To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day | James Jones | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnother ship, the Eduard Bohlen, currently rests half-buried inland after crashing in 1909.
They scrambled onto boats to Lebanon, Jordan or Gaza, or raced inland.
Follow that borderline inland for a couple hundred kilometers and what do you hit?
Half of This Bar Is in Slovenia, the Other Half Is in Croatia | Jeff Campagna | January 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow dense settlements crowd coastlines, and inland areas are no longer empty.
Mark Hertsgaard Analyzes the Psychology of Climate-Change Activism | Mark Hertsgaard | July 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThus four thousand Indians at most roam through, rather than occupy, these vast stretches of inland territory and sea-shore.
This was bordered by salt marshes only, covered occasionally at spring tides by the sea, some of which extended pretty far inland.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil SmithThe tidal rivers mentioned previously are actually estuaries of Chesapeake Bay and they flow periodically inland.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyDead ground; defiladed from inland batteries; deep water right close to the shore!
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonDeedes also met me and the whole band of us made our way inland to my battle dugout.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian Hamilton
British Dictionary definitions for inland
of, concerning, or located in the interior of a country or region away from a sea or border
mainly British operating within a country or region; domestic; not foreign
the interior of a country or region
towards or into the interior of a country or region
Derived forms of inland
- inlander, noun
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