How to Use "Appalachia" with Example Sentences

1. The people who live in the hills and hollows of central appalachia face high rates of diabetes , heart disease , cancer and respiratory illness .
2. The counties where life expectancy has fallen are nearly all in the south or appalachia , where huge deep-fried portions are the norm and waistlines are among america 's widest .
3. Such stories are echoed across the country in appalachia , where mountaintop-removal mining exposes coal seams by blasting away summits-and dumping tons of rock and soil into the narrow valleys below .
4. America has pumped federal dollars into deprived regions such as appalachia .
5. The rippling trance of an old-time banjo groove , and doc 's soulful voice layered on top , the sound of merging immigrant cultures of old ireland and africa in appalachia -- it was all so beautiful .