Potomac

[ puh-toh-muhk ]

noun

1. a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
2. a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

Potomac

/ pəˈtəʊmək /

noun

1. a river in the E central US, rising in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia: flows northeast, then generally southeast to Chesapeake Bay. Length (from the confluence of headstreams): 462 km (287 miles)

Example Sentences

Small, shallow-draft scows then took the stones to much bigger schooners or sloops, anchored in deeper water, for the trip up the Potomac.

From Washington Post

The attraction, fashioned from two shipping containers, sits on its own pier, directly over the Potomac in front of Ada’s.

From Washington Post

It was the stake that pinned the capital forever to this patch of land on the Potomac.

From Washington Post

The Americans had mysteriously failed to destroy the bridge at Bladensburg that spanned the Eastern Branch of the Potomac — the Anacostia River.

From Washington Post

The first step is the addition of a new Long Bridge over the Potomac to add rail lines, a project now in the design stage.

From Washington Post

What does is the fact that the state Senate district he represented until 2010 is across the Potomac River in Maryland.

From The Daily Beast

Potomac now home to ugly invasive voracious snakehead predator species.

From The Daily Beast

Skutnick was a government worker who had plunged into the icy Potomac to rescue victims of a plane crash.

From The Daily Beast

Pandit lived in North Potomac, Maryland, for 20 years with his wife and his golden retriever.

From The Daily Beast

But if anything goes wrong, look out—and not just in the region, but on the Potomac too.

From The Daily Beast

Afterward, when the news came that Lee had succeeded in getting his army safely across the Potomac, Mr. Middleton's hopes revived.

From Project Gutenberg

Up to this time the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac had taken little part in the great battles which had been fought.

From Project Gutenberg

It had hastened to the Potomac in time to aid in rescuing the capital when Lee made his first Northern invasion.

From Project Gutenberg

Round their bivouac fires the history of the Army of the Potomac was freely discussed.

From Project Gutenberg

Mosby is with him, and the irregular bands of the upper Potomac, and the troops which met Hunter at Lynchburg.

From Project Gutenberg