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Thames River

  1. Longest river in England , flowing generally eastward across southern England and through London to the North Sea .


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Notes

During industrialization in England, the Thames was particularly important because industries were established on the banks of the river. It passes famous buildings in London, such as the Tower of London and the Houses of Parliament .

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Example Sentences

Brosnan is effortlessly dashing as he pilots a speedboat in a high-speed chase on the Thames River in London.

It is situated on the Thames River, about twenty miles from London.

Thames river life is a separate world from the land life in houses.

On one side was the Thames River, with high and precipitous bank, on the other a marsh running almost parallel with the river.

The Thames river would seem quite as strange to an Englishman as the river Chicago would seem to us.

The tribe in which he was a principal chief had at one time been much oppressed by another tribe from the Thames River.

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