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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in northeast South Dakota and flowing about 650 km (400 mi) southward, partly along the South Dakota–Iowa border, to the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa.
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- noun a river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa
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Examples
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When Lewis and Clark reached the Big Sioux River in Dakota, on their famous journey up the Missouri, one hundred and ten years ago, they met, on the very edge and beginning of its range, the Mule Deer, and added the new species to their collection.
Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Having succeeded in finding them, and made ready for a start, we saw a wagon coming from above with four yoke of cattle, and I found it was my old friend, Th閛phile Brugui鑢e, an old Indian trader, and the first settler at the mouth of Big Sioux River.
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Of the Big Sioux River, M. Nicollet says, its Indian name means that it is continuously lined with wood; that its length cannot be less than three hundred and fifty miles.
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Of the Big Sioux River, M. Nicollet says, its Indian name means that it is continuously lined with wood; that its length cannot be less than three hundred and fifty miles.
Minnesota and Dacotah: in letters descriptive of a tour through the North-west, in the autumn of 1856. With information relative to public lands, Christopher Columbus 1857
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A dam will also be built this summer just north of where Skunk Creek flows into the Big Sioux River; that's behind Johnny Carino's.
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The water of the Big Sioux River is far from flowing over the levee system in Sioux Falls.
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SIOUX FALLS, SD - The construction work to replace the 41st Street Bridge over the Big Sioux River is in its fourth week.
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SIOUX FALLS, SD - The construction work to replace the 41st Street Bridge over the Big Sioux River is in its fourth week.
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SIOUX FALLS, SD - The construction work to replace the 41st Street Bridge over the Big Sioux River is in its fourth week.
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They're designed to keep pollution from flowing into the Big Sioux River.
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