NOUN
- a river that rises in the Catskills in southeastern New York and flows southward along the border of Pennsylvania with New York and New Jersey to northern Delaware where it empties into Delaware Bay
How To Use Delaware River In A Sentence
- In March 1681 the king agreed to grant young William, the admiral's heir, proprietary ownership of the lands west of the Delaware River and north of the Maryland border in exchange for canceling the old debt.
- Using three works - two entitied Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River and Mending the Net - they found underdrawings in graphite directly related to existing photographs.
- Fisherman Ray Turner hand-built the V-shaped stone overflow dam, or weir, in the East Branch of the Delaware River in New York; its walls funnel eels into a wooden collecting rack.
- Whatever the reason for the call, whatever the location, the idea that we should construct a dam across the Delaware River, or any tributary, is a bad one, a destructive one.
- A city of southeast Pennsylvania on the Delaware River, an industrial suburb of Philadelphia.
- The residents of what Mr. Woodard calls the Midlands—the westward extension to the Midwest of the Quaker-dominated Delaware River colonists that Mr. Fisher described—gave crucial votes to Lincoln and stayed with the Union as well. Life May Differ In Your Region
- Beyond that, a narrower but more fertile inner plain slopes down to the bank of the Delaware River.
- The wastewater would then be mixed with other industrial waste, treated and then dumped into the Delaware River, and the solid waste product would be landfilled at the Dupont location.
- With this in mind he recrossed the Delaware River on 26 December and launched successful counterattacks at Trenton and later at Princeton.
