Orontes
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Tulin Kuseyri, a 62-year-old Turkish woman, stood by the Orontes River in Antakya on Thursday, watching searchers remove a body from an apartment building.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
Most likely, he will settle in a town on the Orontes River in Idlib province where rebels are in control.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2016
“We just wanted to get out,” one scraggly rebel survivor, Wassim, 23, told me at the banquet hall on the Orontes where they were gathered, declining to give his full name for security reasons.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2016
A rainbow forms over the Orontes River valley.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2013
One day the old Greek, when working on a pier, suddenly plunged twenty feet into the rapid Orontes.
From In Both Worlds by Holcombe, William Henry
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