Tigris

[ tahy-gris ]

/ ˈtaɪ grɪs /

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noun

a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1,150 miles (1,850 km) long.

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How to use Tigris in a sentence

You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq|Nathan Bradley Bethea|August 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bell died at her house by the Tigris in Baghdad in July 1926 at the age of 57.
Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq|Clive Irving|June 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We have not hatched a perfect democracy on the Tigris, and this we know.
Panetta's Freudian Slip|Fouad Ajami|July 12, 2011|DAILY BEAST
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the great river, which is the Tigris.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various

Its method of progress is simply to drift down the fairly rapid current of the Tigris as far as is required.
The Cradle of Mankind|W.A. Wigram
In this case, you must take them all and throw them by night into the Tigris.
A Boswell of Baghdad|E. V. Lucas
They relinquished to the Romans five provinces beyond the Tigris.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon
Was there not the Euphrates, was there not the Tigris, the Aranes?
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols)|Thomas De Quincey

British Dictionary definitions for Tigris

Tigris

/ (ˈtaɪɡrɪs) /

noun

a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing southeast through Baghdad to the Euphrates in SE Iraq, forming the delta of the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows into the Persian Gulf: part of a canal and irrigation system as early as 2400 bc, with many ancient cities (including Nineveh) on its banks. Length: 1900 km (1180 miles)

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