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US
/ˈjɑˌzu/
]
NOUN
- a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
How To Use Yazoo In A Sentence
- Haley Barbour, who was in Yazoo City where his home is located, called the twister "gigantic" and said that "in places [it] seemed to be to be several miles wide. WIBW - HomePage - Headlines
- His Shibboleth was, that the disgrace of the State must be wiped out by the repeal of the Yazoo Act; and _repeal_ rang from every mouth, from Savannah to the mountains. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest
- Of course, I answered him that I would make the "feint," regardless of public clamor at a distance, and I did make it most effectually; using all the old boats I could get about Milliken's Bend and the mouth of the Yazoo, but taking only ten small regiments, selected out of Blair's division, to make a show of force. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
- The Corps' Yazoo Pumps plan would drain water impounded by levees during high stages on the Mississippi River.
- The two most appropriate parallels are the government's redemption of "continentals" - paper money issued by the colonies during the Revolutionary War - and the Yazoo land grants. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
- Skip grew to know Yazoo too.