Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in southeast Wisconsin and flowing about 300 km (185 mi) south-southwest to the Illinois River in northeast Illinois.
- A river of central and eastern Wisconsin flowing about 320 km (200 mi) generally northeastward through Lake Winnebago and into Green Bay.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river in Wisconsin that flows into Lake Michigan
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Examples
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The floodwaters crested overnight, now these folks have their water pumps and they're now pumping water over a wall of sandbags, pumping that water back into the Fox River, which is just really moving at a steady clip behind me.
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They're trying to pump that water, as futile as that looks, from this road that we're standing on back into the Fox River, which is now almost on top of this wall of sandbags that residents built overnight.
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They're on the scene because they have discovered a car in the Fox River, which is in downtown Green Bay, but they don't know whether this -- whether this car is connected to or linked to 21-year-old Mahalia Xiong.
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So this cresting of this river could not have come soon enough for these residents here because had this river gone up any further, you would have seen these mobile homes becoming houseboats and racing down this Fox River, which is moving at a steady clip.
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Leaving this bay, they ascended the river, since known as Fox River, that empties into it.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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The Fox River was the stream to which the Miamis first led them.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836
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Crossing the Fox River will be a bit more difficult starting this morning as Green Bay crews start their annual spring cleaning of the city's three main bridges.
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Although the Fox River is a federal waterway, the U.S.
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He was far better known, however, as a novelist, and especially as the creator of Roger Dowling, a former canon lawyer whose career was derailed by drink and who has become, in his rehabilitation, a parish priest in a Midwestern town called Fox River, where he runs across an inordinate number of murders and shows an unusual gift for solving them.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2010
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Cleanup of the Fox River has been the subject of a federal battle with millions of dollars at stake.
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