How to Use inlet in a Sentence

inlet

noun
  • The coast is dotted with tiny inlets.
  • The team fished near the power plant and the inlet in 20 to 30 feet of water.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 30 June 2021
  • This six-bedroom home is on the inlet and just one block from the beach.
    Shannon Rooney, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
  • The inlet breezes were mild; the only sound the lapping of small waves on the muddy shore.
    Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • All of that water, there's so many rivers and inlets here.
    Fox News, 12 Sep. 2018
  • Pause at the seawall along the way and watch for seals splashing around in the lagoon inlet.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • Follow about a mile past an inlet and take a right on Scotch Cap Road.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 12 July 2019
  • The water here is known as the Northern Arm, a jagged inlet off the Atlantic Ocean.
    Walter Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2022
  • There are menorahs now on the edges of the inlet where a priest would prepare a sacrament.
    Anna Deforest, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Aug. 2022
  • In the fall, adult kokanee turn bright red and journey up small inlet streams to spawn.
    Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Most of the lakes in the Upper Copper Basin still have their inlets and outlets locked in ice.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The inlet is part of the even more massive Glacier Bay that boasts more than a thousand glaciers—at least for now.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Over by the inlet near Brandy Creek in deep waters has been a good spot also.
    sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Rip tides are strong currents that appear when the tide pulls out of an inlet.
    Teddy Maiorca, Jennifer Borresen, Dinah Voyles Pulver, and Carlie Procell, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • Rip tides are strong currents that appear when the tide pulls out of an inlet.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
  • Over the next year, four more feet would appear in the region's inlets and beaches.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 13 May 2018
  • The pictures were obtained from a boat on the inlet where the house is located.
    Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2020
  • While only in the inlet for about 10 days, Cook and his crew were the first Europeans to set foot in the region.
    Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2020
  • Many users recommend staying away from the edge of the inlet.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The water's edge would be reshaped to allow for bathing in a small inlet.
    John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2018
  • From one of the lots, there is also a private kayak launch with access from the inlet to the Long Island Sound.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Another point are the two small holes in the fairing between the air inlets.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
  • People have also asked why flights can't take-off from the inlet side.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2018
  • Snedden was swept about 300 yards out into the inlet, near the mouth of the Anchor River.
    Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The main action starts in Liguria, Italy, at the idyllic inlet that gives the film its title.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2020
  • His business is just two miles from the Long Island Sound and blocks away from an inlet that snakes through town.
    Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2021
  • That small inlet in front of the two scoops is for the cabin's air conditioning.
    Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Burks-Copes credits Merrell for being the first to come up with the idea of putting a barrier out in the inlet.
    Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
  • Sand carried in by tides and storms accumulates in what’s called a flood-tide shoal at the northwest corner of the lagoon near the inlet.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2024
  • Stairs and ramps provide people a way to touch the water at a shallow inlet created by removing a portion of the dock wall.
    Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 27 Sep. 2024

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