St. Croix
Americannoun
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Also called Santa Cruz. a U.S. island in the N Lesser Antilles: the largest of the Virgin Islands. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
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a river flowing from NW Wisconsin along the boundary between Wisconsin and Minnesota into the Mississippi. 164 miles (264 km) long.
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a river in the NE United States and SE Canada, forming a part of the boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, flowing into Passamaquoddy Bay. 75 miles (121 km) long.
Example Sentences
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When students ask about the lake’s name, Jonna St. Croix, a social studies teacher at Sackets Harbor Central School, calls it Lake Ontario, following state curriculum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs almost always wore the same outfit – a black St. Croix mock turtleneck sweater, blue Levi's 501 jeans, and New Balance 991 trainers.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2024
St. Croix allows “Monsters of the American Cinema” to take a surreal turn, where dreams, reality and the movies blur into a coherent psychological story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
The researchers examined samples from six live sclerosponges that a diving team from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez collected off the shores of Puerto Rico and St. Croix, in the U.S.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024
In Hopital St. Croix there was sometimes a shortage of blood, and unless a patient could pay for blood to be sent from another hospital, he went without a transfusion and might well die.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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