Yazoo
Americannoun
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a city in W central Mississippi.
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a river flowing SW from N Mississippi into the Mississippi River at Vicksburg. 188 miles (303 km) long.
Example Sentences
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“You could smell the heavy loam in the deep cool woods—the Yazoo and Big Black rivers were running along,” she tells Lyell after an autumn drive through rural Mississippi in 1935.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Born Alzenia Lynn Hamilton on April 25, 1930, in Yazoo City, Miss., and raised from age 12 in Chicago, she studied acting at the Goodman Theatre and later earned a bachelor of arts degree.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2025
Moyet was one half of the 1980s pop duo Yazoo and enjoyed further chart success as a solo singer in the 1980s with songs such as Is This Love?
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2023
The south Delta’s Yazoo Backwater area covers thousands of square miles, starting just north of Vicksburg and going up to where Mississippi Highway 12 bisects the Delta.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2023
I knew she didn’t want to talk about her father, so I just stood there looking at her, looking at the Yazoo, and neither one of us talked.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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