Hudson River

noun

1. a river in E New York State, flowing generally south into Upper New York Bay: linked to the Great Lakes, the St Lawrence Seaway, and Lake Champlain by the New York State Barge Canal and the canalized Mohawk River. Length: 492 km (306 miles)

Hudson River

1. River that runs north to south in New York state.

Notes

Explored by Henry Hudson in the early seventeenth century.

Example Sentences

One of these, Mary Rogers, went missing, only to turn up in the Hudson River in 1841.

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It will be largely invisible to most drivers, since it will be buried under Lake Champlain and the Hudson River.

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It was the only one built west of the Hudson River (the others are in Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, and Brooklyn).

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The severe traffic jams that ensued wrought chaos in and around the Hudson River town of Fort Lee.

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Super Bowl XLVIII will be played just across the Hudson River from a city with football embedded in its DNA.

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The few remaining Pequots either became slaves or fled to the Hudson River.

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Our thriving neighbor, Hoboken, just across the Hudson River, has a large and vitally important problem to solve.

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About daylight they found themselves on the bank of the Hudson River opposite a dock where lay a big pleasure boat.

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The city was very large and it stretched itself out along the banks of the Hudson River for miles and miles.

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Fig. 130 is an outline sketch of this engine as built for a steamer plying on the Hudson River.

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