NOUN
- a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound
How To Use Connecticut River In A Sentence
- The centerpiece of Cumbler's story is the meandering Connecticut River, stretching from the border with Canada to the Atlantic Ocean.
- THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
- Within three days Reverend Thorn approached one of the most gracious villages ever to have developed in America: the tree-lined, white-clapboarded, well-gabled village of Walpole, near the Connecticut River in southwestern New Hampshire. Hawaii
- A town of southwest Massachusetts, a residential suburb of Springfield on the Connecticut River. Population, 15,467.
- The Sokoki and Pocumtuc (Connecticut River in western Massachusetts) had a long history of hostility with the Iroquois, and helped the Mahican in their war against the Mohawk (1624-28), with the Pennacook being drawn in as allies of the Sokoki. History of American Women
- The Mahiccon, or Mahattan, who occupied Staten island, York island, (which from its being the principal seat of their residence was formerly called Mahatton) Long island and that part of New-York and Connecticut which lies between Hudson and Connecticut rivers, from the highland, which is a continuation of the Kittatinney ridge down to the Sound. Notes on the State of Virginia.
- From the vantage of our laboratory at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, the eye can wander over the majestic landscape of the Connecticut River Valley.
- The beautiful Connecticut River, home course to the Dartmouth Crews, offers twenty miles of calm, rowable water. Undefined
- Nor would I rest until that alliaceous metropolis was fairly tipped over into Connecticut River, and sent drowning down to Long The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
- The Commissions are advisory and have no regulatory powers, preferring instead to promote public involvement in decisions that affect the Connecticut River and its watershed.
