Pripet

American  

[prip-it, -et, pree-pet] / ˈprɪp ɪt, -ɛt, ˈpri pɛt /

noun

1. a river in northwest Ukraine and south Belarus, flowing east through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River. 500 miles (800 km) long.

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Pripet British  

/ ˈpriːpɪt /

noun

1. Russian name: Pripyat.  a river in E Europe, rising in NW Ukraine and flowing northeast into Belarus across the Pripet Marshes (the largest swamp in Europe), then east into the Dnieper River. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)

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Example Sentences

The total casualties suffered by him in that campaign almost equalled the original strength of his armies between the Pripet Marshes and the Carpathian Mountains.

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But the prince had already begun to take farewell of the princess, and an hour later the court set out for Turoff, and the army for the Pripet.

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The troops were four days passing the Pripet; then they had to cross almost every day rivers and streams flowing through shaky ground.

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With him, with Polksenjits and Nebaba, nearly twenty thousand Cossacks laid down their heads on the field of battle, or were drowned in the morasses of the Pripet; terror then flew like a whirlwind over the rich Ukraine, for it appeared to all that after the great triumphs--after J�ltiya Vodi, Kors�n, Pilavtsi--the hour was coming for such defeats as the former rebellions had experienced at Solonitsa and Kum�iki.

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On the other hand, the troops of private persons and of the king in pursuing robbers frequently passed the Pripet and the Goryn in the province of Kieff, continued into the depth of the province of Bratslav, and there, attacked by the Cossacks, fought regular battles, not infrequently bloody and stubborn.

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