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- noun a series of waterfalls in Yosemite National Park in California; is reduced to a trickle for part of each year
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Examples
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Yosemite Falls, the nation's tallest, is spewing enough water to fill a gasoline tanker truck every four seconds.
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Yosemite Falls, the nation's tallest, is spewing enough water to fill a gasoline tanker truck every four seconds.
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We tumbled over Yosemite Falls, right onto Sunny side Beach!
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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We tumbled over Yosemite Falls, right onto Sunny side Beach!
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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We tumbled over Yosemite Falls, right onto Sunny side Beach!
The Welkening Gregory Spencer 2004
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El Capitan on the left, the Yosemite Falls dancing down in three great leaps opposite; the Half Dome and Cloud's Rest off to the right, Vernal and Nevada Falls pouring their torrent over the cliffs at your side, the Hetchy-Hetchy Valley, the rolling plateau that stretches back to the perpetual snow and rising peaks behind you.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher
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"Is it true," a woman asked me at the foot of Yosemite Falls, "that this is the highest unbroken waterfall in the world?"
The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903
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Next in progress come Yosemite Falls, loftiest by far in the world, a spectacle of sublimity.
The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903
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Yosemite Falls, the nation's tallest, is spewing enough water to fill a gasoline tanker truck every four seconds.
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Yosemite Falls, the nation's tallest, is spewing enough water to fill a gasoline tanker truck every four seconds.
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