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
On the morning of May 5, 2014, a coyote picked up Brayan and Robinson at their grandparents’ home, in Jalapa.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
After the victory of Cerro Gordo, the army pushed forward to Jalapa, a fine village half-way up the table-lands.
From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid
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