Kuskokwim

[kuhs-kuh-kwim]

noun

1. a river in SW Alaska, flowing SW to the Bering Sea. About 724 miles (1,170 km) long.

Kuskokwim

/ ˈkʌskəˌkwɪm /

noun

1. a river in SW Alaska, rising in the Alaska Range and flowing generally southwest to Kuskokwim Bay an inlet of the Bering Sea. Length: about 970 km (600 miles)

Example Sentences

Trump’s support can be expected for renewed clear-cutting in the 17-million-acre Tongass forest, the same old-growth carbon sink Dunleavy hoped to profit from; building a 211-mile industrial-use-only road through the pristine Brooks Range to open the door to copper mining; and permitting an open-pit gold mine near the headwaters of the salmon-rich Kuskokwim River.

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More than 30 Alaska Native villages depend on the Kuskokwim for their subsistence living.

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Streubel said conditions were made worse by an ice dam that formed near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River.

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A flood warning was in effect until Monday morning for the Kuskokwim River.

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Engram chose sections of eight rivers: the Colville, Noatak, Tanana, Yukon, Kantishna, Innoko, Copper and Kuskokwim, listed here in descending order of latitude.

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