Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in northern West Virginia and flowing about 200 km (125 mi) generally north into southwest Pennsylvania, where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River.
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- noun a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River
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Examples
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A wharf along the Monongahela River is regularly shut down when the river level rises.
Pittsburgh Considers Warning System, Closures After Flash-Flood Deaths Kris Maher 2011
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Steve was born in 1942 in Western Pennsylvania in the town of Nemacolin, a coal town constructed by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company close to the Monongahela River.
Holly Cara Price: Steve Popovich: A Music Industry Legend Holly Cara Price 2011
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The largest structure in the middle holds the living room, with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out to a wide open back yard and a sweeping view of the Monongahela River.
A Star Architect for a Song Nancy Keates 2011
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Once across the Youghiogheny River 34 miles from Wills Creek, he faced a trek over a long ridge, down the Monongahela River to the Forks of the Ohio, then thirteen miles downstream to the town and trading post of Logstown.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The largest structure in the middle holds the living room, with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out to a wide open back yard and a sweeping view of the Monongahela River.
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Steve was born in 1942 in Western Pennsylvania in the town of Nemacolin, a coal town constructed by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company close to the Monongahela River.
Holly Cara Price: Steve Popovich: A Music Industry Legend Holly Cara Price 2011
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Once across the Youghiogheny River 34 miles from Wills Creek, he faced a trek over a long ridge, down the Monongahela River to the Forks of the Ohio, then thirteen miles downstream to the town and trading post of Logstown.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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The Tri County Joint Municipal Authority, which draws water from the Monongahela River about halfway between Pittsburgh and the West Virginia border, collected the newly required samples last Thursday for the first time and sent them to its private laboratory.
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Steve was born in 1942 in Western Pennsylvania in the town of Nemacolin, a coal town constructed by the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company close to the Monongahela River.
Holly Cara Price: Steve Popovich: A Music Industry Legend Holly Cara Price 2011
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Bloomberg News Low office rents are one of the attractions of Pittsburgh, seen above across Smithfield Street Bridge spanning the Monongahela River.
Pittsburgh Is Remade as Steal City James R. Hagerty 2011
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