Okefenokee Swamp

[ oh-kuh-fuh-noh-kee ]

/ ˌoʊ kə fəˈnoʊ ki /

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noun

a large wooded swamp area in SE Georgia.

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Words nearby Okefenokee Swamp

oke, Okeechobee, Okeechobee Waterway, O'Keeffe, O'Keeffe, Georgia, Okefenokee Swamp, Okeghem, O'Kelly, Oken, okey-doke, Okhotsk

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How to use Okefenokee Swamp in a sentence

Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is a pop culture icon, the home of Walt Kelly’s Pogo comic strip and the setting for many a Burt Reynolds movie.
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Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue.
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Electric Swamp Blues How can you possibly find authentic swamp blues in Portland, Oregon?
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Klain is not the first to crawl out of the swamp of Biden World on to the larger stage.
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When the pioneers reached Toledo it was called “Frogtown” because the place was a swamp.
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Yeager took the photo while balancing on a raft in a muddy Jamaican swamp.
The Queen of the Playboy Centerfolds|Nina Strochlic|May 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A native brought news that a collector and his wife were hiding in a swamp near the road.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Two companies deployed over a swamp and went along the beach under cover of the Utah Battery.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The swamp is more easily accessible from Virginia than from North Carolina.
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In the campaign in Holland last war, a party marching through a swamp, was ordered to form two deep.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
The road was a bullock track, a swamp of mud amid the larger swamp of the ploughed land and jungle.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for Okefenokee Swamp

Okefenokee Swamp

/ (ˌəʊkɪfɪˈnəʊkɪ) /

noun

a swamp in the US, in SE Georgia and N Florida: protected flora and fauna. Area: 1554 sq km (600 sq miles)

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