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Hennepin

[ hen-uh-pin; French en-pan ]

/ ˈhɛn ə pɪn; French ɛnˈpɛ̃ /

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Louis

[lwee], /lwi/, 1640?–1701?, Belgian Roman Catholic missionary and explorer in America.

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Words nearby Hennepin

Henie, Henle's loop, Henley, Henley-on-Thames, henna, Hennepin, hennery, hen night, hennin, Henoch, hen of the woods

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How to use Hennepin in a sentence

His department investigated police-involved shootings for all but one of Hennepin’s 44 municipal departments.
Minneapolis Police Were Cleared in the 2013 Killing of Terrance Franklin. A Video Complicates the Story—and Now the Case May Be Reopened|Josiah Bates|June 25, 2021|Time
Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Attorney Mike Freeman rebutted their charges this week.
Michael Tomasky on How the GOP Plans to Block the Black Vote|Michael Tomasky|August 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Father Hennepin made a sketch of the falls in 1678, a facsimile of which shows that many striking features have disappeared.
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 3, October 1899|Various
From there Accau and Hennepin were sent to explore the upper Mississippi.
The Colonization of North America|Herbert Eugene Bolton

After describing the method, Hennepin says: "When he had made me sweat thus three times in a week, I felt as strong as ever."
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems|H. L. Gordon
At this, Hennepin, out of respect for his cloth, thought it befitting that he should retire also.
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West|Francis Parkman
This loss threw him into extreme perplexity, and, as Hennepin says, "would have made anybody but him give up the enterprise."
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West|Francis Parkman