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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many users recommend staying away from the edge of the inlet.
    Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Snedden was swept about 300 yards out into the inlet, near the mouth of the Anchor River.
    Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The phone landed in a grassy, muddy area, as can be seen in the video inlet within his TikTok.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The air inlets in the front bumper have been enlarged and a new exhaust setup is fitted across the lineup.
    Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 5 Sep. 2023
  • About half can be found in Greek waters, where an island or inlet might be home to just a few monk seals.
    Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Plenty of people were on the beach, so all of the shorebirds were across the inlet on Figure Eight Island.
    Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And then there's an inlet for people who just wanna swim.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Workers quickly erected a sandy berm — 10 feet tall and higher than the king tide — at the entrance of the inlet.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Sunbathers lounge on Sand Beach, a hidey-hide inlet where lovers gather at night.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2021
  • Workers stopped much of the incursion by closing the tidal inlet with sand berms.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The fuel tank inlet check valve may not be fully welded to the fuel tank shell.
    USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Avoid inlets, outlets or narrow that may have current that can thin the ice.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The skeleton was discovered by beachcombers at the south end of Onslow Beach near the inlet of the New River.
    Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • One such inlet is Jumba beach, which abuts the site of an old Swahili village near the bustling city of Mombasa, in southern Kenya.
    Juma Adero, The New Yorker, 26 July 2023
  • This open-air marketplace, along the Cayuga inlet, has been a staple of this town since 1973.
    Kelsey Fowler, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The turbo's inlet is tiny, and both the angle and the curvature of its turbine blades are designed for rapid spool-up.
    John Phillips, Car and Driver, 13 June 2023
  • The first is leaving out of the city port, where a few ships successfully slip out of the unguarded inlet.
    Cody Cassidy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2023
  • Turn off the water to the toilet using the isolation valve on the water inlet line, then flush the toilet to empty the tank.
    Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The grille has been reworked slightly and the front air inlets on the bumper now carry a Maybach logo motif.
    Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The home, located on a main inlet to the Gulf of Mexico, was not in great condition.
    Corina Knoll, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2022

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