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Tombigbee

American  
[tom-big-bee] / tɒmˈbɪg bi /

noun

  1. a river flowing S through NE Mississippi and SW Alabama to the Mobile River. 525 miles (845 km) long.


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After arriving in March in Demopolis, Ala., on the Tombigbee River, he remained there for a month because of tornadoes and flooding.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2021

A flood warning also is in effect for the Tombigbee River at Amory in Mississippi.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 8, 2019

Things are different today, of course, and for many of us, the Tombigbee River is something we see from a bridge as we hurry by on our daily travels.

From Washington Times • Jan. 6, 2016

The Tombigbee, thanks to the completion of the $2 billion Tenn-Tom Waterway in 1985, remains a tool of commerce as millions of tons of cargo are shipped down the system to the port of Mobile.

From Washington Times • Jan. 6, 2016

Then, as the saying is, she "pulled up stakes," and moved to what is now the State of Alabama, on the Tombigbee.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler