___ Lions (Big Ten team from the Keystone State)

Usage examples of nittany.

With the top-ranked Penn State Nittany Lions in town for a showdown with the Buckeyes, the entire city of Columbus awakened to thoughts of football.

Dad was a solid athlete, and the coach agreed, so Dad went to State College and played for the Nittany Lions.

But the really permanent features, like the Bald Eagles to the north and Nittany Mountain to the south, were exactly as they should be.

It had to be somewhere within, say, ten or fifteen miles of where he had been time-shifted, which was just over the Clinton County line, in Nittany Valley.

I decided on a flash-seared Wagyu filet, a side of asparagus with mustard miso, and a salad of nittany ears.

The back road from Fitra to Sevenhills Valley hadn’t been so bad, but now, in what he had formerly known as Nittany Valley, traffic had become heavy again.