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
How To Use Mississippi River In A Sentence
- The measured soil parameters at the sites were within the normal range for bottomland hardwood soils of Mississippi River alluvium.
- Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the “batture lands”. Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA)
- If the Union could capture New Orleans, it would control the Mississippi River. President Lincoln appointed navy officer David Farragut to lead the attack on New Orleans.
- The Corps' Yazoo Pumps plan would drain water impounded by levees during high stages on the Mississippi River.
- You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for houses and livable acreage.
- Abraham Lincoln, as a hired hand on a flatboat in 1831, ran aground on a trip down the Mississippi River.
- Her daddy was Mike Fink, the keelboat man, who was famous for his daring deeds on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
- The Mississippi River and its associated tributaries have been heavily channelized and leveed throughout the region. Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)
- However, it does show, in a general way, the thick alluvial deposits along the lower Mississippi River and on the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, and in the deep basins of the western cordillera. Full Text Circular: About the Geologic Map in the National Atlas of the United States of America « ResourceShelf
- Thousands of fish and a dead whale were found dead in the west Mississippi River, Louisiana, US. Species include crabs, sting rays, eels, speckled trout and red fish.
