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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