Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a river in western Montana that flows south and east to join the Missouri River

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Sun River.

Examples

  • They went to Medicine River, now called the Sun River, and there witnessed

    The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • Known as the Broken O Ranch, it's located about 35 miles northwest of Great Falls and has 20 miles of the Sun River running through it.

    Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith Sell Home in Kauai 2011

  • Related Work & Family Mailbox: Creativity and Standardized Tests Read more from Sue Shellenbarger at The Juggle When Joan Iselin, 68, of Sun River, Ore., wanted to connect on Facebook with her two adult children and four grandchildren, she turned to her granddaughter, Sierra Sullivan, 18, a University of Oregon freshman.

    Teens Take Elders to Tech Boot Camp Sue Shellenbarger 2011

  • Broken O Ranch Known as the Broken O Ranch, the property is located about 35 miles northwest of Great Falls and has 20 miles of the Sun River running through it.

    Private Properties 2011

  • When the arrangements for this preliminary expedition were completed I started for Fort Benton, the head of navigation on the Missouri River, on the way passing through Fort Shaw, on Sun River.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • FOR his forty-second birthday on June 5, 1997, Maureen had given Allen the best present she could think of: golf lessons at a posh resort in Sun River, Oregon.

    Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000

  • So when Allen asked Danny to go with him to Sun River, he accepted eagerly.

    Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000

  • Colonel MacLeod decided that he could not hope to pull the horses and cattle through the winter in the locality where he was making his headquarters, so he dispatched Inspector Walsh and the weakest of the horses and cattle to Sun River, some 200 miles to the south.

    Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth

  • Smet, and the government has furthered these attempts by establishing a fine farm on Sun River.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

  • Half the people of Helena lately hurried, in the depth of winter, to diggings on Sun River, (where many and many a brave fellow perished in the snows,) to learn that far richer mines had lain unclaimed for months within a stone's throw of their homes.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.