Maumee
Americannoun
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a city in NW Ohio.
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a river in E Indiana and W Ohio, flowing NE to Lake Erie, at Toledo. 175 miles (280 km) long.
Example Sentences
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Steven Gallagher, 50, of Maumee, Ohio, was charged in New York federal court with securities fraud, wire fraud and market manipulation.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2021
The 2014 algae bloom wasn’t the worst ever, but that year some formed directly over the Maumee Bay intake valve for the city of Toledo’s water plant, leaving city taps dry for three days.
From Washington Times • Dec. 9, 2019
His Inverness supporters were ecstatic—and so were Toledo bettors, who made their biggest killing since Jack Dempsey whipped Jess Willard in their heavyweight fight near Maumee Bay in 1919.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 20, 2019
Antony told jurors that Fields, who traveled to Charlottesville from his apartment in Maumee, Ohio, near Toledo, arrived in the city “filled with anger” on the morning of the racist, anti-Semitic “Unite the Right” demonstration.
From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2018
The great war-chief, his vengeance unslaked, and his purpose unshaken, had retired, as we have seen, to the banks of the Maumee, whence he sent a haughty defiance to the English commander.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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