How to Use estuary in a Sentence
estuary
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In the estuary of the Gironde, like in Rauzan-Ségla and Canon, time seems to stand still.
— Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021 -
The pilot lands at a deep green estuary at the head of Kizhuyak Bay.
— Michelle Theriault Boots, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 May 2016 -
What are some threats to, the Mobile Bay, to the estuary, to the watershed here in the area?
— Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 13 Feb. 2023 -
Then between two fairy tale chateaux, the estuary of the Gironde.
— Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021 -
The Delta is the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas.
— Kathleen Ronayne, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022 -
This way, the dye is carried out of the estuary into the coastal ocean.
— Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023 -
The delta, a vast tidal estuary that sits on the eastern edge of the Bay Area, is fed by the state’s two largest rivers.
— Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021 -
The event was to inform the public of the health of New England’s largest estuary.
— Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017 -
The Chesapeake Bay, where these crabs come from, is the largest estuary in the United States.
— Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2021 -
It’s prized for being off the grid, but it’s also an estuary on the brink.
— Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2020 -
The water, a mix of silt and clay, is a ruddy chocolate brown all the way out to the estuary where the river meets the bay.
— Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021 -
The move transformed the tidal estuary at the heart of the city into a sedentary river.
— Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018 -
And the news is better for those who fish in coastal estuaries and rivers.
— Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 15 June 2023 -
Humber estuary is along the eastern coast of the U.K. and about 200 miles north of London.
— Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 May 2024 -
Carlson said the estuary was set aside for wildlife and helps boost species that are in decline.
— Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2018 -
More than 150 rivers and creeks flow into the bay, making it the largest estuary in North America and the third-largest in the world.
— Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2017 -
Less than 200 years ago, Dubai was a small fishing village and the Creek was just an estuary.
— Amarachi Orie, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021 -
There are a few tufts of green, a few of red, weeds growing out of reach from the estuary’s saltwater.
— Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019 -
The endeavor in the Dornoch Firth, an estuary of the North Sea, is eight years along, and still moving forward.
— Louise Schiavone, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021 -
Tidepool touch tanks, see coastal and estuary birds, check out the Teaching Lab, walk a loop trail.
— Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017 -
De Lappe, for one, has spent years chronicling abandoned and sunken boats in the estuary.
— Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024 -
The largest estuary in North America, the bay is known for its beauty and bounty.
— Washington Post, 4 June 2021 -
Delta smelt are at the heart of the tensions over California's water supply and the health of the West Coast's largest estuary.
— Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 1 June 2018 -
The debris has long been cleared, but experts say the storm caused lasting damage to the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States.
— Ashley Barrientos, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022 -
In and of itself, the scene is no different from the fringe of countless estuaries.
— John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017 -
The fish are feeder kings that have moved into the Chetco estuary to eat anchovies.
— sacbee, 31 July 2017 -
Two rare plants found here — Champlain beach grass and low-growing beach pea — are remnants of a time when the lake was an estuary of the Atlantic.
— Suzanne Carmick, New York Times, 6 June 2017 -
Canoe the largest estuary in the Great Lakes, with visits to research stations and a birding area.
— Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022 -
Situated on the banks of the Tagus River estuary, the water’s edge is always nearby.
— Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 -
The estuary already has a long list of non-native species, including bass, water hyacinth, Asian clams and overbite clams.
— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
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