NOUN
- a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
How To Use Platte River In A Sentence
- We are especially concerned about the northern Rocky Mountain forecast since it feeds snowmelt to the northern branch of the Platte River.
- A city of north-central Colorado, a residential and industrial suburb of Denver on the South Platte River. Population, 29,387.
- I watched as a rainstorm moved down the Platte River valley from the northwest.
- A city of north-central Colorado, a residential and industrial suburb of Denver on the South Platte River. Population, 29,387.
- At our summer place on the Platte River, we can still shoot most anything in season from the back porch --- squirrels, turkeys, deer, etc. --- thank goodness our world out here still doesn't turn as fast as your world back east, but I'm afraid my grand children will find things different when they get to my age. On Dear Days Gone By
- Wide prairies Vegetable productions Tabular hills Slabs of sandstone Nebraska or Platte River Scanty fare Buffalo skulls Wagons turned into boats Herds of buffalo Cliffs resembling castles The chimney Scott's Bluffs Story connected with them The bighorn or ahsahta Its nature and habits Difference between that and the "woolly sheep," or goat of the mountains The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
- The mid-April snow storm will provide significant moisture for increased streamflow on the southern branch of the Platte River in Colorado.
- In addition, there's likely to be heavy snowfall accumulations in the mountains of Colorado and Wyoming that feed that Platte River drainage basins.
- Since the pipeline's proposed route crosses many of these habitats -- including the Platte River in Nebraska, one of the most important feeding and resting locations -- miles of these critical stopping points would be at risk of being fouled with sludgy, toxic tar-sands oil every day of the year. Leda Huta: Keystone Pipeline Could Push Endangered Whooping Crane Into Extinction