How to Use embayment in a Sentence

embayment

noun
  • Green Bay, a massive embayment on the lake’s west shore, is shallow and fertile, and offers some of the best smallmouth bass and muskie fishing in the country.
    Steve Quinn, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2020
  • The massive piece of ice, known as the Larsen B Embayment, used to apply back pressure against glaciers flowing out into the embayment.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • In many places, ice shelves attach to the land along the sides of an embayment, providing some anchoring that slows their forward motion.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Without the embayment, these glaciers will push more ice into the sea and likely contribute to rising sea levels.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The idea of so many of this extremely rare animal being in this tiny embayment is not comforting.
    Karen Weintraub, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The Tonto wends into a huge, red-walled embayment, called the Inferno, and our view — while stirring — holds distressingly steady.
    Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2021
  • On the sandy embayments rimming the southwestern English coastline, beachcombers can find a wide array of stones, from tiny pebbles to hefty paperweights, strewn amidst the flotsam.
    Rob Arnold, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The town's prime spot on the Mississippi Sound, an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico, provides a glorious stretch of white-sanded beach with virtually no crowds.
    Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The explorers paddled down the western side of the Door Peninsula into an embayment and river system teeming with wild rice, wild celery, waterfowl, beavers and fish — lots and lots of fish.
    jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
  • It's positioned on the Mississippi Sound, an embayment of the Gulf of Mexico, which provides an awe-worthy stretch of white-sand beach with virtually no crowds.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
  • Heavier rainfall is expected to flush more agricultural runoff into the Great Lakes, which triggers these massive blooms in shallower embayments like Green Bay.
    Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Georgian Bay represents yet another key embayment of Lake Huron, extending northeast into Ontario.
    Steve Quinn, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2020

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