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/məˌnɔŋɡəˈheɪɫə/
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NOUN
- a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River
How To Use Monongahela In A Sentence
- Washington sent out sixty-five of his 150 men under two officers, to intercept the French between the Meadows and the Monongahela, assuming that they had canoed up the river. George Washington’s First War
- A borough of southwest Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. Population, 21,923.
- By the end of the 1800s and early 1900s, those small factories gave birth to the monolithic glass and steel mills that lined the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers.
- The Corporal was a slender, lantern-jawed, weasel-faced Monongahela raftsman, sharp as a steel-trap. Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac
- Sprawling Monongahela National Forest is home to 230 species of birds.
- Perhaps its northern branch, called Junius's creek, which interlocks with the western of Monongahela, may one day admit a shorter passage from the latter into the Ohio. Notes on the State of Virginia.
- On Oct. 26, 1948, a temperature inversion laid a blanket of cold, stagnant air over Donora, Pa., a tiny mill town on the Monongahela River.
- Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
- When the spectators learned that the builder of the boat intended to take his wife along on the trip, excitement and scandalized alarm spread through Pittsburgh and up the valley of the Monongahela.
- Records show, and company officials concede, that Hatfield's Ferry is already dumping scrubber wastewater into the Monongahela that violates the state's few proposed pollution rules.
