NOUN
- a North American river; boundary between the United States and Mexico; flows into Gulf of Mexico
How To Use Rio Grande In A Sentence
- He predicted Jones would “discountenance the movement under the impression that the United States will have the right, and will be bound to remove the Mexican military from east of the Rio Grande after annexation.” A Country of Vast Designs
- The arid desert climate gets little rainfall, but the Rio Grande provides water for irrigation.
- A bank of five bifold French doors stack to either side of the 15-foot-wide opening for a sweeping view west across the Rio Grande Valley.
- Mayors and city councils are all along the (Rio Grande)real grand river, which forms the border with Mexico are (banding)bending together in an effort to start(stop) construction of the fence.
- Owen returned after the interval as soloist in Constant Lambert's Rio Grande, and the programme ended, for no very obvious reason, with Copland's Rodeo.
- But the Mexican immigrant can easily recross the Rio Grande by a drive over a short bridge.
- At twelve o'clock (noon) the next day the English engineers, with a party comprising all the Brazilian swells of Lagôa Dourada, proceeded to a valley within the village to lay the first chain for the exploration of the mountains which divide the watershed of the Rio São Francisco and the Paraopéba from the Carandahy and Rio Grande, for the prolongation of the Dom Pedro Segunda Railway. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
- The story of Fort Hancock, 57 miles southeast of El Paso on the Rio Grande, is echoed along theTexas border with Mexico, from Brownsville to El Paso. Mexicans Fleeing the Drug War Pour Into the U.S. | Impact Lab
- Rio Grande to the Santa Clara pueblo Indians of the Tanoan stock, it may be of interest to state that there is a vague tradition extant among the modern settlers of the Verde region that the cavate lodges of that region were occupied within the last three generations. Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-92, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 179-262
- I was a "flitter" of the first water, and after I had been in Fort Worth for a very short while I became possessed of a desire to see something of the far famed border towns along the Rio Grande frontier. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers