Pocono Mountains

[ poh-kuh-noh ]

plural noun

1. a mountain range in NE Pennsylvania: resort area. About 2,000 feet (610 meters) high.

Example Sentences

Boyle’s status carries significant implications for the power balance in the 203-member House, currently with a 102—100 Democratic majority and a special election next week for the vacancy, a Republican-leaning district in the Pocono Mountains.

From Seattle Times

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said six to 12 inches of snow could fall in the southern Pocono mountains and northern New Jersey, with smaller snow and sleet totals changing to rain in other areas that could cause some flooding.

From Seattle Times

“I know it’s horrible, I know it hurts sometimes, but we got your back,” Mr. Emhoff said at Cedar Lake Camp, a summer program for Jewish children and teens in northeastern Pennsylvania, roughly 60 miles from New York City in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains.

From Washington Times

White with red shutters, it sits tucked into the rolling Pocono Mountains made famous for the escape they provide East Coast city-dwellers.

From Seattle Times

The police have disclosed some of the evidence that led them to arrest Mr. Kohberger at his parents’ home in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, saying they had relied on DNA from a knife sheath left on a bed with two of the victims, cellphone records that suggest his phone had been in the area a dozen times before the murders occurred and surveillance footage of a white Hyundai, like the one Mr. Kohberger drove.

From New York Times