“Battambang became a prosperous province in the 1990s, and the city benefited from extensive private investment from nearby Thailand.”

“In the wild province, vast sweeping moors and bushy dunes are buffeted by Cape Cod's deadly sea, the site of one thousand known shipwrecks.”

“Mr. Holloway said it was not his province to decide on his own jurisdiction.”

“Sophisticated and chic, it's a really a new experience for us provincials.”

“But then people stopped wearing dunce-caps in the towns because it came to be seen as a sign of a provincial, a peasant.”

“The provincialism in the small town was evident in their reluctance to embrace new ideas or cultures.”

“Linguists studying the diverse dialects of English have identified several forms of provincialism, including the distinct accents and vocabulary found within different regions of the United States.”

“Conservative reaction, like socialist internationalism, was distinctly un-English in its lack of provincialism.”

“In Bulgaria, Detchko Uzunov might be a provincialist or a parochialist, but he surely was not a regionalist.”

“A reference to a work of authority on the subject will oblige a provincialist.”

“No doubt, too, Labour concluded that provincialization inhibited its effective involvement in national policy-making.”

“One of the initial consequences of the shrinking of Iapetus was a gradual decline in the provinciality of fossils.”

“Mainly provinciality is understood as mental characteristic meaning retardation of every sort and kind.”

“It carries its intelligence lightly, is never overbearing or flashy, and is devoid of obfuscation, provinciality and jargon.”

“The legion was later reinforced with legionaries from the Germania provinces.”

“This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.”

“Traditionally, provinces and altepetl were governed by hereditary tlatoani.”

“In a disastrous miscalculation, the producers carefully put back all the lame, dated gags and Manhattan provincialisms that dotted the original production.”

“Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class.”