Tennessee River

Cultural  

1. River formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville, Tennessee; it follows a U-shaped course to enter the Ohio River in western Kentucky.

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Example Sentences

Classic Texas songs like Halo, Say What You Want and I Don't Want A Lover are purified in the swampy waters of the Tennessee River, and reborn with a spacious, soulful clarity.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2024

At the time, it had just been discovered and was only known to exist in one stretch of the Little Tennessee River — which the Tennessee Valley Authority was planning to dam.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023

A Bald Eagle disappeared into the trees on the far bank of the Tennessee River just as the two researchers at the bow of our modest motorboat began hauling in the trawl net.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

But as workers removed mounds of dirt to make way for dams along the Tennessee River, Native burial sites were exposed, unearthing skeletal remains and sacred objects that had been buried for generations.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

At the lake’s western end, where the Little Tennessee River flows into it, stands a big hydroelectric dam, 480 feet high, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson