Don River

Cultural  

1. River in southwestern Russia.

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Example Sentences

The breakaway contingent rumbled through villages and along a road that cut through patches of forest and flat farmland, skirting gulleys carved out by tributaries of the Don River.

From Reuters • Jul. 10, 2023

The German army stood at the gates of Leningrad, on the outskirts of Moscow, and on the Don River.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Boeck has next to nothing to say, except for a brief footnote, about Sholokhov’s parents and early life in the Don River valley, as “almost all accounts of his childhood are either saccharine or selective.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2019

When the ancient Greeks first defined the borders of Europe, its eastern edge was set at the Don River.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2017

Not the ravine near our house, but a larger branch of it, farther south, past the brickworks, where the Don River, willow-bordered, junk-strewn and dingy, winds sluggishly toward the lake.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood