Example sentences for: apennines

How can you use “apennines” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The two regions were united at the time of the 19th-century Risorgimento, with Emilia following the Apennines from Bologna to Piacenza, while Romagna covers the eastern area of Ravenna and the Adriatic resorts around Rimini down to Cattolica.

  • Florence lies at the heart of the northern Apennines, in a basin of the Arno river which runs out to Pisa and the sea.

  • On the eastern flank of the Apennines, the Abruzzi region, of which the province of Molise is a recently created offshoot, came under Roman domination in the third century b.c.

  • Below the three great lakes, Maggiore, Como, and Garda, the fertile plain of the Po river separates the Alps from the rugged chain of the Apennines, running like a wall down the middle of the peninsula to the arid south.

  • The green and fertile region round Naples, between the Tyrrhenian coast and the western slopes of the Apennines, was colonized by the Etruscans and Greeks.


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