Hiwassee

American  

[hahy-wos-ee] / haɪˈwɒs i /

noun

1. a river in NE Georgia, SW North Carolina, and SE Tennessee, flowing N to the Tennessee River. 150 miles (241 km) long.

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Example Sentences

Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, made her first public appearance since the September incident at a press conference to advocate for a North Carolina bill barring transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s scholastic sports.

From Washington Times

Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, suffered a concussion and neck injury after a transgender athlete hit her in the head with a volleyball during a school match last September.

From Seattle Times

Payton McNabb, a senior at Hiwassee Dam High School in Murphy, suffered a concussion and neck injury after a transgender athlete hit her in the head with a volleyball during a school match last September.

From Washington Times

Yet since the dam’s completion, the federally controlled TVA has worked to raise oxygen levels in more than 300 miles of river downstream of its dams — a move meant to improve the viability of the three-inch fish — while wildlife managers successfully introduced the snail darter in the Hiwassee and Holston rivers.

From Washington Post

He wanted the town to pay sincere homage to its Cherokee roots as evidenced by the presence of the Charleston-Calhoun-Hiwassee Historical Society, the realization of the Hiwassee River Heritage Center which was a timely repurposing of a former bank building, and the prideful opening of the National Historic Trail Experience whose winding course takes pedestrians from the Heritage Center to Hoyt Berry Park.

From Washington Times