Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river rising in southwest Montana near Butte and flowing about 510 km (320 mi) generally north then northwest to Pend Oreille Lake in the Idaho Panhandle.

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Examples

  • The next week of walking took us through St. Regis, Clark Fork, Missoula, Drummond, and Phosphate on our way to Butte.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • The next week of walking took us through St. Regis, Clark Fork, Missoula, Drummond, and Phosphate on our way to Butte.

    Miles to Go Richard Paul Evans 2011

  • The ecoregion contains the nation's largest Superfund toxic waste site, stretching along the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers from the Continental Divide west to Missoula, Montana.

    Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands 2008

  • All water west of the divide feeds into the Flathead River, which then flows through Flathead Lake and empties into the Clark Fork which joins the Columbia River to the Pacific.

    Champ de Glace Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • I'm a little uneasy about how such a charming, sophisticated defense will play in Coeur d'Alene or Clark Fork, or anywhere else, really.

    Frank Dwyer: Hold On, Larry! 2008

  • But it just stands to reason, given the tailings and the other dimensions of the mining project that it's going to have to meet a very high standard before you can be absolutely certain you're not doing anything to Clark Fork or to Yellowstone.

    President Remarks At Billings Mt Town Hall Meeting ITY National Archives 1995

  • I know it's on private land, but it's only a couple of miles from Yellowstone and from Clark Fork.

    President Remarks At Billings Mt Town Hall Meeting ITY National Archives 1995

  • Outside, the stars were bright above the dark ring of mountains around Missoula, and the plume of smoke from the pulp mill floated high above the Clark Fork in the moonlight.

    The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

  • We crossed the bridge over the Clark Fork, and I looked away at the wide curve of green water and the white rocks engraved with the skeletons of dead insects along the banks.

    The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

  • There was a wooden bridge over the Clark Fork just below the pulp mill, and then a climbing log road against the mountain that overlooked the river, the sour, mud-banked ponds where they kept their chemicals before they seeped out into the current, and the lighted parking lot full of washed and waxed yellow trucks.

    The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

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