Eifel
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Sebastian Frenkel, who often visits the western Eifel region of Germany that has been devastated, initiated an online crowdfunding scheme to help.
From Reuters • Jul. 24, 2021
"The German language hardly knows words for the devastation that has been wrought," she said in front of the town hall in Adenau, in Germany's Eifel district, one of the areas hit hardest.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2021
In the village of Schuld, in the Eifel region, the flash flood ripped buildings apart and tossed cars over, filling the streets with debris and thick layers of mud.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2021
The weather service, a government agency, assigned its most extreme storm warning, code purple, to the Eifel and Mosel regions.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2021
Like the stadium, most were being clad with natural stone, all of it German—more limestone from Franconia, basalt from the Eifel hills, granite and marble from Silesia, travertine from Thuringia, porphyry from Saxony.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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