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US
/ˈkɫɑnˌdaɪk/
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NOUN
- a region in northwestern Canada where gold was discovered in 1896 but exhausted by 1910
How To Use Klondike In A Sentence
- A few nights ago, after viewing one of these, I was quaffing beer in Bombay Peggy's and learned that every one of the four women at the table happened to live on the other side of a river, either the Yukon or the Klondike.
- The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
- All I reckon is a passage to Klondike in your boat would be mighty square of you. LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
- Engagingly harnessed to the period also are the screen-printed portrait photographs of hairy, moustachioed, and frothily side-burned artists posing manfully à la Klondike, the “women” often draped obediently on the floor beside them. Psychedelic Denver
- Dog - teams carried the news to Salt Water; golden argosies freighted the lure across the North Pacific; wires and cables sang with the tidings; and the world heard for the first time of the Klondike River and the Yukon Country. The Wife of a King
- After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Klondike. Chapter XXV
- To close it and sterilise what is a Klondike of 100m tonnes of coal would be nothing short of criminal.
- But for five whole days he plunged the land in wailing and sorrow, and for five whole days he was the only man in the Klondike. AT THE RAINBOW'S END
- Joyn uz fer Klondike Bars daown thred jus a smidge! Video: Kitteh Hates Reflection - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
- It will probably be news to most readers that alfalfa -- the wonderful forage crop of the West, the producer of more gold than all the mines of the Klondike -- was in use so long ago, for the impression is pretty general that it is comparatively new; the fact is that it is older than the Christian era and that the name alfalfa comes from the Arabic and means "the best crop. George Washington: Farmer