How to Use province in a Sentence

province

noun
  • They left the city for life in the provinces.
  • 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 links to Usyk’s home province and country don’t stop there.
    Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
  • 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 epicenter was in the province of Paktika, about 30 miles from the city of Khost.
    Sasha Warren, Scientific American, 24 June 2022
  • Born in 1978 in the central province of Henan, Mr. Yue left his village to seek a better life in the city.
    New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The area where most of them live, Sistan and Baluchistan province, is among the poorest in the country.
    Babak Dehghanpisheh, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The site was uncovered in Qianshan, in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Carapaz was born in Carchi, one of Ecuador’s most remote and mountainous provinces, lying on its northern border with Colombia.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 June 2025

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