Mississippi River

1. The longest river in the United States, flowing over two thousand miles from Minnesota to Louisiana and into the Gulf of Mexico.

Example Sentences

Last year, many members took a cruise along the Mississippi River.

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Then the levees, never well designed, were breached in multiple locations and 80% of the city, which sits in a bowl between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, found itself under water.

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The lake was once the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River.

From Los Angeles Times

The most enduring of Twain’s books is “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” published Stateside in 1885 when Twain was 49, the story of a runaway boy and an escaped slave who flee down the Mississippi River.

From Los Angeles Times

The group said it elevated the river on the list, right behind the first-ranked Mississippi River, to bring greater attention to the waterway’s chronic pollution problems and the lack of action to clean it up.

From Los Angeles Times