[
US
/ˌæpəˈɫætʃiə/
]
NOUN
- an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina)
How To Use Appalachia In A Sentence
- How much do you know about the South: the forests of the southern Appalachians, the swamps and bayous, the barrier islands, keys, and coral reefs?
- His dream is to hike the Appalachian Trail.Sentencedict
- The dusky salamander lives in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and likes to stay at home.
- This dead-end dirt road follows a peaceful stretch of the Housatonic River and connects to the Appalachian Trail.
- His extraordinary journey takes him from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, along the chain of the Appalachian mountains until Maine, and then a life-changing walk into the canyons of the Sierra Madre in Mexico. Jeff Biggers: Walk, Pray, Love: New Travelogue Explores the Redemptive Power of Walking: Interview with Author Mickey Mahaffey
- Brooklyn schools are the Appalachian cousins of the Baby Ivies and take great pride in the number of their Manhattan applicants.
- The name, “ramp,” is from “ramson,” which is a survival of archaic British dialect, which is one of the roots of Appalachian dialect that peppers the speech of folks native to that region. Tigers & Strawberries » Appalachian Wild Leeks
- Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel? THE IRATE NATION
- Hi again Angela: it looks like my feed was off hiking the Appalachian Trail. Hollow | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
- He had also been to Appalachia to expose the depth of rural poverty in America, and had made an amazing trip to South Africa, where he challenged young people to fight apartheid.