Sentence examples for Mississippi from high-quality English sources.

• Mississippi is a low and fairly flat state.

• Mississippi: Mississippi has extended the due date for filing income tax returns to July 15, 2020.

• Mississippi and Mississippi State, which are members of the SEC, said they supported Commissioner Greg Sankey when he said it was “past time for change to be made to the flag.”

• The federal department will examine whether the Mississippi Department of Corrections adequately protects prisoners from physical harm and whether there is adequate suicide prevention at the Parchman prison, Southern Mississippi Correctional Institute, Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, and the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility according to a statement from the Justice Department.

• He later practiced law in Jackson, Mississippi.

• La Salle claimed the Mississippi valley for France.

• Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state in 1817.

• Barge traffic moves on the Mississippi, Pearl, and Yazoo rivers.

Use Mississippi in a sentence.

• The expedition turned back to the Mississippi River early in 1542.

• There tributaries of the Mississippi cut deeply into the underlying bedrock.

• The Mississippi River separates western Mississippi from Louisiana and Arkansas.

• Mississippi John Hurt, original name John Smith Hurt, (born July 3, 1893, Teoc, Mississippi, U.S.

• —died May 30, 2019, Oxford, Mississippi), American politician who represented Mississippi in the U.S.

• Also located in Jackson are the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

• Spain already held the west bank of the Mississippi and wanted to extend its authority over the whole Mississippi Valley.

• in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1884, Mississippi University for Women (MUW) historically limited its enrollment to female students.

Mississippi sentence examples

• That county, Leflore County in Mississippi, lynched more black people than any other county in Mississippi, and Mississippi lynched more black people than any other state in the country.

• Among the state’s major research institutions are the University of Southern Mississippi (founded in 1910), with its Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (founded in 1947), and the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium (founded in 1972).

• Institutions of higher learning include the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, with a medical center campus at Jackson; Mississippi State University, at Starkville; and the University of Southern Mississippi, at Hattiesburg.

• Although college basketball and baseball have strong traditions at Mississippi schools (reaching back to Baseball Hall of Famer Casey Stengel’s stint as the coach at the University of Mississippi), collegiate gridiron football has pride of place in spectator sports in Mississippi.