Opole

[aw-paw-luh]

noun

1. a city in Upper Silesia, SW Poland, on the Oder River.

Example Sentences

In Glucholazy, in Poland's southwestern Opole region, firefighters piled up sandbags as residents were evacuated.

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In Roanoke, where Ukraine’s flag now flies instead of Russia’s, the program sent more than $5,000 for refugees via its sister-city counterpart in Opole, Poland.

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“It’s very painful when you are with a pregnant woman who is almost delivering and there is no medication and you wonder, Will the child be positive or not?” said Caroline Opole, who is a volunteer “mentor mother,” counseling women who test positive for H.I.V. at prenatal testing as she did.

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Moving from the train in groups of 30, the children — also from the Darnytskyy orphanage in Kyiv — were escorted to buses waiting to take them to Opole, Poland, where they would be settled and receive further care.

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Instead, she sat on a bed in her grandmother’s apartment in Opole, Poland, streaming the event live on her phone — alone, in the dark.

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