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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising near Smolensk in western Russia and flowing about 2,285 km (1,420 mi) southward through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It has been a major commercial waterway since the ninth century.
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- proper noun A large river flowing southerly through
Russia ,Belarus , andUkraine into theBlack Sea , 2,285 km long.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea
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Examples
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We are at war, the Dnieper is a battle zone, every possibility of feeding the troops must be exploited.
Stuka Pilot Rudel, Hans-Ulrich 1973
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On a hill fronting the Dnieper is a huge bronze statue of St. Vladimir, who brought Christianity to his subjects at Kieff.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The Dnieper was a boy, and the Volga and Dvina his sisters.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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The Dnieper is the river of time, and a bird which has flown as far as the middle of the Dnieper hangs in the air and doesn't know what to do next.
Spero News 2009
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"Dnieper" is one of those great odd-consonant-starting European cities, Like BRNO and GDANSK.
Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle Rex Parker 2010
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The Dnieper was a boy, and the Volga and Dvina his sisters. "
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.
Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011
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So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.
Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011
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So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.
Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011
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So his mother trustingly took her two-year old son to the May Day parade in Kiev, even as radiation continued to spread through the skies of Ukraine and down the Dnieper River, and on that May Day, 1986 into the body of that child, causing cancer.
Al Gore: 25 Years Since Chernobyl Al Gore 2011
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