Smoky Mountains

Example Sentences

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I have built campfires in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, and hunted wild turkey in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

From Literature

The book, which is equal parts entertaining and incisive, charts how the “I Will Always Love You” singer was born in a family of 12 children at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

From Los Angeles Times

Born into crushing poverty in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, her father paid the doctor who delivered her with a sack of cornmeal.

From Salon

It would be the largest development undertaken by Las Vegas-based Ofland Hotels, which in 2021 opened an outdoor boutique hotel in Escalante, Utah, and has been greenlighted for a second hotel near the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.

From Los Angeles Times

East Tennessee was the site of several particularly dramatic events: the 50 residents rescued from the rooftop of a hospital in Unicoi County, where dozens of people in the Latino-populated community are still missing; the floodwaters that surrounded an Impact Plastics plant in Erwin, which trapped and killed an unidentified number of employees, leaving still more unaccounted for; the swelling of various streams in the Smoky Mountains; and the collapse of multiple state bridges.

From Slate