How to Use bayou in a Sentence

bayou

noun

• Adleman had been brutally beaten and strangled with her own shoelace in a heavily wooded area off a jogging trail along a bayou, police said.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 8 Aug. 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024