How to Use bayou in a Sentence

bayou

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], al, 30 Sep. 2021
• His own bayou-side home was all but destroyed in the storm.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Years ago, some crews watered the area into a swampy bayou.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• 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
• Aviators haul bundles of old trees and drop them in the bayou.
  — Rebekah Castor, Fox News, 18 Jan. 2022
• The home the 52-year-old fisherman shares with his wife, Pamela, near the bayou was a soggy, smelly mess, all but destroyed in the storm.
  — Kevin McGill and Melinda Deslatte, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2021
• In the evenings, Buckle and his crew drank beer on the top deck, and tossed pizza slices to alligators in the bayou.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
• The rest has been dismantled under the cover of night and tossed into the bayou.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• Variants add crawfish or crab to make a true bayou boil.
  — Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2023
• Fine and crunchy and satisfying, but hardly a trip to the bayou.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 19 Sep. 2019
• The bayou runs within a mile of the apartment complex, police said.
  — Fox News, 25 Aug. 2020
• Paddle around the 400 acres of bayou, or explore the historic forts and hiking trails along the water.
  — Laura Ratliff, Country Living, 25 May 2023
• One came to rest atop the levee that separates the property from the bayou.
  — NBC News, 12 Oct. 2021
• Chef Isaac Toups subscribes to the latter—much to the benefit of restaurant-goers on his side of the bayou.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024