[
US
/pəˈtoʊmək/
]
NOUN
- a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay
- term sometimes used to refer to Washington, D.C.
How To Use Potomac In A Sentence
- He laughed at the idea of fording the Potomac, declaring that no living man or horse could stand, much less swim, in the stream. Border and Bastille
- The Wikipedia entry says that he read “tens of thousands of books” it also says he skinny-dipped in the freezing Potomac. Sunday Sermon: The Right of the People to Rule | Mind on Fire
- It also describes how nineteenth- and twentieth-century-plans for waterways and the Rock Creek and Potomac parkways were brought to fruition.
- Potomac cleanup began in the 1960s and the river has since rebuilt its reputation on first-class events like sailing regattas and bass fishing tournaments.
- Both leaf floras and paleoclimatic models imply that the Potomac Group climate was moist and subtropical.
- The northern party had to turn back, recross the Potomac, and take the Winchester road. George Washington’s First War
- 12: 37: Lanson Tang, the strapping deep-voiced lad from Potomac, nails "gaminerie" after his peers had missed three straight words. Spelling Bee semifinals, live
- The major interior space, the Potomac rotunda, balloons under a domed ceiling with an oculus, reaching a height of 120 feet.
- On the Virginian side of the Potomac stands a country-house called Arlington Heights, from which there is a fine view down upon the city. North America
- Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, became a media critic today, hammering CNN hard for relying on a police scanner this morning to misreport a Coast Guard training exercise on the Potomac River.
