Yellow River

noun

1. the second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles) Chinese nameHwang Ho

Example Sentences

He dreamed he was far away in China, walking along the banks of the great Yellow River.

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The distance from Yellow River is about thirteen miles; it required five and a half hours to accomplish this.

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Down the yellow river swept the two uninjured rafts and the one that carried a fringe of raggedness.

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It is known to foreigners as the Yellow river—a name which is a literal translation of the Chinese.

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You see the James—the wide, old, yellow river, with the birds going screaming overhead.

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