euphrates

IPA: jufrˈeɪtiz

Root Word: Euphrates

The river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.

Examples of "euphrates" in Sentences

The sixth vial upon the Euphrates.
REPORTS ON THE NAVIGATION OF THE EUPHRATES.
The Euphrates is fast flowing at this point.
Babylon lay on the far bank of the Euphrates.
Greek continued to contribute to the Euphrates.
It is a site on the western bank of the Euphrates.
Cappadocia is quite a distance west of the Euphrates.
I think you meant the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Her weeping eyes became the source of the Tigris and the Euphrates.
After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates.
This is Shiasm, giving birth in the amniotic fluid waters of the euphrates held in the womb of Shia womanhood and motherhood.
National museum looted of irreplaceable artifacts water systems destroyed - so iraqi's drinking out of the euphrates river - right where the open sewage flows into the river
It is difficult to understand how so striking a natural phenomenon should have failed to attract the attention of physicists and astronomers until the middle of the seventeenth century, or how it could have escaped the observation of the Atabian natural philosophers in ancient Bactria, on the euphrates, and in the south of Spain.