Green River

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noun

a town in SW Wyoming.

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How to use Green River in a sentence

Bus and train service will take you as far as Green River, a quiet burg known for its paddling access and tasty melons, some 45 minutes from Moab.
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He observes the bodies floating away on the river, pulling on his cigarette with a sneer.
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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
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I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
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It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
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This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
In this position, the line of cavalry formed the chord of the arc described by the river, and occupied by us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
How to Know the Ferns|S. Leonard Bastin
Dick was at the wharf, one day last week, when one of the up river boats arrived.
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The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
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British Dictionary definitions for Green River

Green River

noun

a river in the western US, rising in W central Wyoming and flowing south into Utah, east through NW Colorado, re-entering Utah before joining the Colorado River. Length: 1175 km (730 miles)

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