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US
/ˈɑɹkənˌsɑ/
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NOUN
- a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
- a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River
How To Use Arkansas In A Sentence
- It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever. Archive 2010-04-01
- The Hoosiers have played their Division 1A opponents even on the scoreboard at 30.8 points scored and 31.0 allowed, but the Hoosiers have faced three bad teams in Western Kentucky, Akron, and Arkansas State and they've been badly outplayed from the line of scrimmage 5.9 yards per play to 7.2 yppl. Jeff Ma: Bringing Down the Bookie: Week 7
- My largest contributor was my friend Anne Bartley, Governor Winthrop Rockefellers stepdaughter, who later ran the Arkansas office in Washington, D.C., when I was governor.
- What distinguished the 1996 plan from the Arkansas effort was its sheer magnitude.
- Afterward, he was elected Arkansas attorney general and served as governor for 10 years before becoming president.
- A few weeks later at a campaign rally in El Dorado, a south Arkansas oil town that was a hotbed of racism and pro-Wallace sentiment, Fulbright was asked what was the biggest problem facing America.
- The fruit of his excursion into the Pawnee country, on the waters of the Arkansas, a region untraversed by white men, except solitary trappers, was “A Tour on the Prairies,” a sort of romance of reality, which remains today as good a description as we have of hunting adventure on the plains. Washington Irving
- That Arkansas poultry producer was at it again.
- Did nobody notice that McCain shivved Arkansas 'former governor in the back in Washington state last weekend? Red State Dems Dismiss Hillary Spin On Losses
- East of Fort Smith down the Arkansas River, and in the mountains to the north, the counties tended to be populist, socially conservative, and pretty evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats.