St. Louis

[ seynt loo-is ]

/ ˌseɪnt ˈlu ɪs /

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noun

a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.

a river in NE Minnesota, flowing generally S to Lake Superior at Duluth. 160 miles (257 km) long.

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Words nearby St. Louis

St. Lawrence River, St. Lawrence Seaway, St.-Léonard, stlg., St. Lô, St. Louis, St. Louis Park, St. Lucia, St. Lucie cherry, STM, St. Malo

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How to use St. Louis in a sentence

The St. Thomas gathering happened around 2005, according to Krauss.
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At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.
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Church bells pealed from St. Catherine of Siena parish one block away.
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What got leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 22?
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The opposition responded with a month-long Occupy Abay (like Occupy Wall St) campaign, in which Udaltsov was one of key figures.
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Louis stood firm, though pale and respectful, before the resentful gaze of Elizabeth.
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In the evening, St. Peter's and its accessories were illuminated—by far the most brilliant spectacle I ever saw.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.
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At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.
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The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
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Cultural definitions for St. Louis

St. Louis

[ (saynt looh-uhs) ]

The largest city in Missouri.

notes for St. Louis

Known as the “Gateway to the West” because of its importance as a staging area for wagon trains in the nineteenth century. The Gateway Arch, made of steel and several hundred feet high, stands in St. Louis in commemoration of this fact.