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Blue Ridge

NOUN
  1. a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia

How To Use Blue Ridge In A Sentence

  • We managed to get peeks of banded pipefish, and a peacock flounder at the aptly named Blue Ridge.
  • A commerical showing "Virginia today ...", pictures of rolling foothills and the Blue Ridge Mountains, families hiking and fishermen fishing; panning out to "Virginia tomorrow [with a little help of Bob McDonnell] ...", showing footage of the after-effects of mountaintop removal [destroyed mountains, scenery, and soot-filled streams once filled with fish]. Does Anyone Else Feel A Comeback On the Way?
  • Typically occurring in Virginia are basalt and metabasalt of the Catoctin Formation, granite and granodiorite of the Virginia Blue Ridge Complex, and andesite, tuft, and greenstone of the Swift Run Formation. Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
  • An independent city of southwest-central Virgina east-northeast of Roanoke. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, it is an educational center. Population, 66, 049.
  • Typically occurring in Virginia are basalt and metabasalt of the Catoctin Formation, granite and granodiorite of the Virginia Blue Ridge Complex, and andesite, tuft, and greenstone of the Swift Run Formation. Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
  • -- With such entire absence of designated western boundaries, so much of the great "denuded" region as will be here under consideration, lies wholly in, and includes much the largest portion of the space between the falls of the rivers and the Blue Ridge mountains, which space, in Virginia, is known as the Piedmont region. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
  • A journey through the Mountain State convinces the traveler that on her side of the Blue Ridge West Virginia offers as many wonders under the earth as above it, if one is not a claustrophobe. Blue Ridge Country
  • Thus the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Adirondacks, the Appalachians, and so on would all have their ridges lined with these monstrosities.
  • The camp rented a school bus and drove them home north along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
  • The granite peaks and sylvan hollows in the Blue Ridge Mountains are the results of geological changes and metamorphosis over perhaps a billion year period of time.
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