How to Use province in a Sentence

province

noun
  • They left the city for life in the provinces.
  • Streets east and west are named for states or provinces.
    Amy Aumick, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Such things, after all, are the province of the city of man.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 June 2020
  • The same province will embark on a wider cleanup next month.
    Echo Huang, Quartz, 21 June 2019
  • That still sort of is the province of the print community.
    Eric Johnson, Recode, 4 Oct. 2018
  • The remoteness of the towns in the province is partly a quirk of history.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The team had been among the top-performing in the province of Saskatchewan before the crash.
    Kim MacKrael, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • Since then saozi noodles have been a staple dish in the province.
    Rachel Yang, Los Angeles Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The province, the size of Lebanon, has been the beating heart of the rebellion for years.
    Fox News, 16 Sep. 2018
  • On the eastern edge of the province, whales ply the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
    Outside Online, 25 July 2022
  • Adana province opened three restaurants to survivors of the earthquakes.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Kandahar is one of the most volatile provinces in Afghanistan.
    Fox News, 18 Oct. 2018
  • All this comes after the royal couple's sporty first day in the province.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • In March, one person in the province was killed and homes were torched, the news agency said.
    Joe Sterling, CNN, 9 June 2018
  • Obviously, camp didn’t stay the province of the wealthy.
    Mac Schwerin, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The result: a modern province with Almere as its green heart.
    Lea Lane, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Fantasy has always been the province of the bored housewife.
    WIRED, 14 Sep. 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
  • Tens of thousands more have fled to calmer provinces near Khartoum.
    Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The oil-producing province is due to hold an election next year.
    The Economist, 28 June 2018
  • The realm of lust is rightly a province of my domain, the fourth circle, that of Greed.
    Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Journalism was once the province of the iconoclasts, but no longer.
    John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Most new cases are in the western province of Xinjiang.
    Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 30 July 2020
  • The rebels are then expected to have no choice but to head to the northern province of Hajjah.
    NBC News, 16 June 2018
  • The hay comes from a neighboring province with more rainfall and is bought in by truck or motorbike.
    National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Working with a label from her home province was a natural fit for her.
    Véronique Hyland, ELLE, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Idaho is part of the Basin and Range tectonic province.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
  • And old growth already is vanishingly rare in the province — and going fast.
    Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021

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