Styr

American  

[steer, stir] / stɪər, stɪr /

noun

1. a river in northwestern Ukraine, flowing north to the Pripet River. 300 miles (480 km) long.

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Example Sentences

A 2021 study led by Maimon Rose and Boaz Styr, then both members of Yartsev's lab, revealed that when one bat emits a call, it induces collective brain coupling among all listening bats.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2023

Alliser Thorne and Tormund, they were one of the standouts, and then of course John and Styr was the other one.

From Time • Jun. 9, 2014

With ever increasing fury the battle raged along the Styr River on the following day, June 20, 1916.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

On the same day on which Lutsk was captured other forces stormed strong Austrian positions on the lower Strypa in Galicia between Trybuchovice and Jazlovice and crossed both the Ikva and the Styr.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)

This fortress, together with Dubno, farther south on the Ikwa, a tributary of the Styr, and with Rovno itself formed a very powerful triangle of permanent fortifications erected by Russia in very recent times.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan