Mississippi

//ˌmɪ.sɪˈsɪ.pi//

"Mississippi" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Finally, we got to the Mississippi.

The Mississippi is the longest river in the United States.

The Mississippi River is deep and wide.

Through which city does the Mississippi River pass?

His army was west of the Mississippi River.

Where is Mississippi?

The whole Mississippi river basin from the Gulf of Mexico and up to the Great Lakes area used to be French territory.

Mississippi is the fattest state in America.

The Mississippi delta has changed shape drastically over the course of its history.

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Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die?

That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”

The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.

Any reader who uses the old “One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, etc.” method to estimate distance to a storm, and doesn't get any further than a count of five to eight had better be in a safe shelter.

I counted five Mississippis between each flash of lightning and the thunder crash that followed.

We had lungs like camel bladders by then; we sledged each other mercilessly, each daring the other to break the two-minute limit beneath the diving board. In the summer sea when it was flat-calm and there was nothing else to do but dive down and lie on the clean, ribbed bottom and hold our breaths to count Mississippis we got pretty close to our goal.

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