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adjective

regional

CEFR B1

characteristic of a region

In a sentence

Six example sentences with regional, each labelled with its topic.

  • Every valley here has a regional version of the same stew, and locals will argue for hours about the herbs.

    Cooking

  • The festival books only regional acts, so a band from two hundred kilometers away counts as a foreign import.

    Music

  • Sales fell nationally but held up in the west, so the company gave regional managers control of their own pricing.

    Business

  • Regional building styles survive in the roofs: steep slate in the rainy north, flat clay tiles in the dry south.

    Architecture

  • Her novels are stubbornly regional, set in three coal valleys and written in the dialect spoken there.

    Literature

  • Regional wage differences persist for decades, because workers move far less readily than economists assume.

    Economics

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