the Klondike
Example Sentences
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The town is located on the former site of Tr’ochëk, a hunting and fishing camp where the Klondike and Yukon rivers meet.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2024
As scarce as born-and-bred Washingtonians have become in Seattle, it still can’t compare to the Klondike gold rush days, when hardly anyone was from here.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2023
“It’s like being in the Klondike now,” says Dalhousie ecologist Hugh MacIntyre, referring to the gold rush that brought prospectors to remote northwestern Canada in the 1890s.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2023
“I thought it was a baby buffalo in the beginning,” said Travis Mudry, who was operating an excavator in the Klondike gold fields of the Yukon in June.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022
“It was me that took all the Klondike bars.”
From "Fourth Grade Rats" by Jerry Spinelli
