San Joaquin

[ san wo-keen ]

noun

1. a river in California, flowing NW from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Sacramento River. 350 miles (560 km) long.

Example Sentences

The rural district stretches from Coalinga to Modesto, encompassing Merced County and parts of Fresno, Madera, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties.

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He bucked his party on water conservation issues, opposing Democratic-led efforts to curtail the amount of state and federal water flowing to San Joaquin Valley irrigation districts.

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Once a safely ruby-red district, this swath of the San Joaquin Valley is now decidedly purple.

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Harris also dominates in the state’s largest metro areas, including Los Angeles and the Bay Area, while Trump holds wide margins of support in the San Joaquin Valley.

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A scary situation unfolded early Halloween morning when an AR-15-wielding vigilante mistakenly fired at San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies while trying to pursue a group of suspected burglars, authorities said.

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