Yazoo
Americannoun
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a city in W central Mississippi.
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a river flowing SW from N Mississippi into the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. 188 miles (303 km) long.
Example Sentences
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“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
During the set, she floated back and forth between songs from her solo career and those she made with Yazoo alongside Vince Clarke, who had previously served as keyboardist for Depeche Mode.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025
The south Delta’s Yazoo Backwater area covers thousands of square miles, starting just north of Vicksburg and going up to where Mississippi Highway 12 bisects the Delta.
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2023
The Mississippi Delta, the wedge of fertile farmland where cotton has been grown for generations between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, is accustomed to foul weather.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
I didn’t even want to think how much more miserable her life might become in that shack down along the Yazoo.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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