Example sentences for: catskills

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

  • While you've been in Bermuda getting sunburned, I've been up in the mountains (Catskills) all summer, which has been great for getting away but also leaves me somewhat media-challenged--I get the New York dailies but don't have cable or any TV, and even the radio reception is terrible.

  • After two highly acclaimed story collections, this "young Mozart of Jewish fiction" (Judith Dunford, Newsday ) has written a warm, subtle, understated novel about the daily lives of a group of Orthodox Jews who summer in a small town in the Catskills.

  • I think back with pleasure on the shared fascination of Marty and his young son over how many minutes it takes him to drive from the city to the Catskills every week, the bubbly nonchalance of the Catskills women, and the presence in the margins of Orthodox Jews, who find it increasingly difficult to coexist with "Purple Haze," skinny-dippers, and women's lib.

  • Set in 1969, A Walk on the Moon devises a deliciously resonant dual setting: a Catskills summer community to which middle-class Jews from the city migrate to swim and eat and play mah-jongg, and the gathering hippies at nearby Woodstock.

  • The Eastern Catskills is a not particularly Jewish and now largely forgotten resort region that was once the height of chic, the Hamptons of the 19 th century, as well as home to the Hudson River School of painters.


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