forty-ninth parallel

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noun

Canadian an informal name for the Canadian border with the USA, which is in part delineated by the parallel line of latitude at 49°N

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Words nearby forty-ninth parallel

fortyish, forty-nine, forty-niner, forty-niners, forty-ninth, forty-ninth parallel, forty-one, fortypenny, forty-second, forty-seven, forty-seventh

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How to use forty-ninth parallel in a sentence

The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
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Forty minutes later he says, ‘I think she may have chest injuries now.’
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I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
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Almost forty years later, it seems unlikely this will ever be the case.
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Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
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Botanists have enumerated between forty and fifty varieties of the tobacco plant who class them all among the narcotic poisons.
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It succeeds best in a deep rich loam in a climate ranging from forty to fifty degrees of latitude.
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After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
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It was Wednesday night; over forty men sat down to the house-dinner at the Pandemonium Club.
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The moon rose on a terrified mob trudging or riding the forty miles of road between Meerut and the Mogul capital.
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