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St. Louis

[ seynt loo-is ]

noun

  1. a port in E Missouri, on the Mississippi.
  2. a river in NE Minnesota, flowing generally S to Lake Superior at Duluth. 160 miles (257 km) long.


St. Louis

  1. The largest city in Missouri .


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Notes

Known as the “Gateway to the West” because of its importance as a staging area for wagon trains in the nineteenth century. The Gateway Arch, made of steel and several hundred feet high, stands in St. Louis in commemoration of this fact.

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Example Sentences

What got leaked to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on October 22?

In St. Louis, I believe, for a change of clothes and to go to a nightclub.

And so it is with the St. Louis Rams and the St. Louis Police Officers Association.

To the St. Louis cops and others who are taking the protests personally: get over yourselves.

This has long stopped being primarily about the death of an unarmed young black man in St. Louis.

But I suppose he didnt mean any thing, or he wouldnt have told his mother not to take me to St. Louis.

Grace was taken to St. Louis and placed in one of the most fashionable schools in the city.

Hiawatha had just been published when she was at school in St. Louis, and it had been a great favorite of hers.

Schofield had written that he wished Lawrence would come by way of St. Louis, as he wished to see him.

In the case of the St Louis bridge, half arches were built out on either side of each pier, so that the load balanced.

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