Chilkoot Pass

[ chil-koot ]

/ ˈtʃɪl kut /

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noun

a mountain pass on the boundary between SE Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, in the Coast Range. About 3,500 feet (1,065 meters) high.

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Words nearby Chilkoot Pass

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How to use Chilkoot Pass in a sentence

San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.
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Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education.
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“They just walk around, they ride in their patrol cars, and they just pass by,” he said.
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Typically, aircraft will work in pairs where the flight lead will make an initial pass to mark a target with rockets.
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He goes into some detail into what it took to persuade voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012.
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Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.
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The riches of the unjust shall be dried up like a river, and shall pass away with a noise like a great thunder in rain.
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But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.
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Madame and myself had just been regretting that we should have to pass the evening in this miserable hole of a town.
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He shall pass into strange countries: for he shall try good and evil among men.
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British Dictionary definitions for Chilkoot Pass

Chilkoot Pass

/ (ˈtʃɪlkuːt) /

noun

a mountain pass in North America between SE Alaska and NW British Columbia, over the Coast Range

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