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US
/ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/
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NOUN
- a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
- a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
How To Use Mississippi In A Sentence
- The snowy dome of Fujisan reddening in the sunrise rose above the violet woodlands of Mississippi Bay as we steamed out of Yokohama Harbour on the 19th, and three days later I saw the last of Japan — a rugged coast, lashed by a wintry sea. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
- Plantations are equivalents of big zamindaris all along the Mississippi.
- The permanent solution is not technology, but what we call ecological separation - or no movement of live organisms between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River via the canals," said Alliance President Joel Brammeier, who co-authored a study on the subject in 2008. ENS
- The reverberations were even felt west of Mississippi.
- It was Mississippi's largest cotton plantation. The Sun
- They were heading in a south-easterly direction from New Orleans, Louisiana, following the Mississippi river towards the Gulf of Mexico.
- The watermen of the Mississippi delta will tell you that if you wish to gauge the magnitude of a vessel that has passed by, all you have to do is measure the size of the waves the vessel has left in its wake. Manifesting Michelangelo
- As a youngster growing up a small Mississippi town, Bob Dudley was a swimming prodigy with one of the speediest backstrokes in the state. New BP boss Bob Dudley 'doesn't need to fake his empathy for the Gulf coast'
- We were each armed with a Mississippi yager and two Colt's revolvers. The Life of Hon William F Cody
- Is it real America or does that community's name disqualify the Brazilians of the Mississippi Delta? Burns Strider: Just When You Thought You Were American -- Conservatives Say Not So Fast