Snowy River

British  

noun

1. a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)

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Example Sentences

Snowy River Cocktail Co also doubles as a retail outlet, selling rim sugars and salts and other cocktail ingredients for your home bar.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2021

On a windswept rise above the mighty Snowy River in the Australian Alps, two women are crouched over rocks encircling a large, flat granite stone, their hands placed reverently on the ground beside it.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019

The brumby’s place in the state’s largest national park, through which the Snowy River flows, is an emotive argument in Australia.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2018

Aboriginal people, she says, usually talk about themselves as being from “salt”, “freshwater”, or “desert” country – or even “ice”, as her Ngarigu family’s country around the Snowy River is referred to.

From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2018

You can come with Snowy River if you're only game to face it, Let us mend the pace a little and we'll see who cries a crack.'

From The Man from Snowy River by Paterson, A. B. (Andrew Barton)