How to Use bayou in a Sentence

bayou

noun
  • Melissa Martin down in the bayou of just generations deep of cooking from the Bayou.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2024
  • Then, the fort overlooked the lake, and the bayou spread wider across the land.
    NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
  • While here, be sure to take a boat tour through the swamps of the bayou.
    Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But on my first day in town, both the beach and the bayou would have to wait.
    Chelsea Brasted, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Trees grew out of the water of the bayou that was right next to the barbed-wire fence.
    Melissa Chan, Time, 15 Aug. 2019
  • So Saturday’s game will be the city on the bayou vs. the city on the bay.
    Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The east bank of the bayou forms the western boundary of Fontainebleau State Park.
    Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The nearest city, Lake Charles, is an hour’s drive through the bayou.
    Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Others have blamed it on some sort of voodoo on the bayou.
    Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Call it the Dunkirk-on-the-bayou: the thousands of heroes of Houston.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2017
  • After their car breaks down in the bayou, a group of teens are stalked by a voodoo killer.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 July 2004
  • His own bayou-side home was all but destroyed in the storm.
    Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The young mother had been stabbed 11 times with an ice pick and left along the slope of a Houston bayou.
    Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 25 June 2018
  • There is no bayou to set the mood, with a restaurant nearby.
    Mark Eades, Orange County Register, 4 May 2017
  • The Braeswood location of Three Brothers is in a 100-year floodplain, on the banks of the bayou.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 25 Aug. 2022
  • This was the scene in a single town, on a single bayou, in a single parish.
    Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Bray, his son and son-in-law, settled somewhere along the bayou.
    Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Boat trips are also offered on the bayou from spring to fall.
    Anna Mazurek, Chron, 2 Jan. 2023
  • And along a bayou, shrimp boats were being tied up as shrimpers batten down ahead of the waves and storm surge.
    Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • There will be a beer garden right on the bayou's banks, on the other side of the parking lot from the brewery.
    Emma Balter, Chron, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The banks look like somewhere along a bayou in the south, not like an arm of San Francisco Bay.
    Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 28 Sep. 2019
  • Two more trawlers broke free and drifted away into the bayou.
    Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
  • John Fogerty was born in Berkeley, Calif., which is nowhere the bayou.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2022
  • In full uniform and duty rig, Scheuermann jumped in the bayou and helped her out of the water.
    Staff Reports, NOLA.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • There’s a boat and a kayak for play on the bayou and a road bike for numerous jaunts around the neighborhood.
    Brant James, USA TODAY Sports, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Years ago, some crews watered the area into a swampy bayou.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 20 June 2023
  • Dickinson is the bayou and the water in the house was a swamp, with hair and feces floating in it.
    As Told To Alexa Tsoulis-Reay, The Cut, 13 Oct. 2017
  • In the dead of a moonless night, lost in a bayou, with slave trackers in hot pursuit, all hope seems lost.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Part of an Amtrak train fell off a trestle into the bayou and caught fire.
    Alexandrea Penn, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Riders then board a log flume for a unique adventure down the bayou.
    Leslie D. Rose, Parents, 3 July 2024

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