Jalapa
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“My sister and I would pull up a couple of chairs together and fall asleep while listening to the music in the Jalapa bar where we all lived together.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The teenager in black jeans and a bright yellow baseball hat left her hometown of Jalapa alone and hoped to reunite with her father in Dallas, Texas, after a 10-year separation.
From Reuters ● May 14, 2023
“It’s stark,” said Mynor Carrera, who served as dean of the Jalapa campus of the nation’s largest university for 25 years.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2019
When Brayan and Robinson visited Jalapa, the same men—recent U.S. deportees—stalked Brayan for his parents’ numbers in Trenton.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
After the battle the various details of engineer soldiers joined in the pursuit of the enemy, were collected together at Encerro, and the company remained with Twiggs division until it reached Jalapa.
From Company 'A', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-'48, in the Mexican war by Gustavus Woodson Smith
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