Grand Coulee

American  

[koo-lee] / ˈku li /

noun

1. a dry canyon in central Washington: cut by the Columbia River in the glacial period. 52 miles (84 kilometers) long; over 400 feet (120 meters) deep.

2. a dam on the Columbia River at the northern end of this canyon. 550 feet (168 meters) high.

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Grand Coulee British  

/ ˈkuːlɪ /

noun

1. a canyon in central Washington State, over 120 m (400 ft) deep, at the N end of which is situated the Grand Coulee Dam, on the Columbia River. Height of dam: 168 m (550 ft). Length of dam: 1310 m (4300 ft)

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Etymology

Origin of Grand Coulee

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

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Grand Coulee

The proposal comes as upper Columbia Basin tribes begin to reintroduce salmon in their homewaters nearly a century after construction of Grand Coulee cut off their journey.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

Geological Survey in 2005 would reveal most of the lead, cadmium and other heavy-metals pollution sampled from Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir behind the Grand Coulee Dam, came from the Teck smelter.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

BPA is a nonprofit wholesale electricity provider that operates and transmits electricity from several federal dams in the Columbia River Basin, including the Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

From Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River to Hoover Dam on the Colorado, reservoirs have fueled toxic algae blooms, increased evaporation and flooded land that was home to Native Americans for millennia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2023

Two weeks into his work at Grand Coulee, Joe discovered that among the many college boys who had converged on Grand Coulee seeking work that summer there were two from the Washington shell house.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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