How to Use bay in a Sentence

bay

1 of 2 noun
  • Cross the city on foot from bay to bluffs.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Add the adobo, sazón, oregano and bay leaves.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 22 May 2026
  • There are earthy notes from the thyme and bay leaves.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • The buildup of ice on area rivers, lakes and bays will stop.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Hand has this bay on the top of her list of places to snorkel.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Each evening to keep the pile-up at bay, tidy and clean the kitchen.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 30 May 2026
  • His breezy chat by the bay was over in less than five minutes.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Stir in oregano and bay leaves; cook 30 seconds.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • There are false negatives that need to be kept at bay.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • There are false positives that need to be kept at bay.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Go when the bay view, seafood and an easy group dinner are part of the plan.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Being proactive is the best way to keep this plant at bay.
    — Lauren David, Martha Stewart, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Pricing is based on hours spent in the bay but varies by the day and time of play.
    — Nic Napier, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Pricing for bay booking is still up in the air, too.
    — Kansas City Star, 23 Dec. 2025
  • More and more vehicles were burned, all around the bay.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026
  • These lakes, seas, beaches, and bays range in tone from deep navy to light turquoise.
    — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
  • Remove and discard thyme sprigs and bay leaves.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
  • The garage’s other bay is now part of the guesthouse.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Watch the skyline shimmer from across the bay.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • To keep weeds at bay, spread sterile straw between rows.
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Remove from heat and discard bay leaves.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The effort comes amid an alarming rise in gray whale deaths in the bay.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026
  • Wastewater and bilge drained into the bay.
    — Steven Rosenfeld, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Add stock, cream, bay leaves, and potatoes and stir to combine.
    — Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Since then, the city has seen five different flags fly over its bay shores.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Would-be soldiers in the program sleep in large, open bays on bunk beds.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Return pot to medium heat, and add beef stock, thyme, and bay leaves.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Remove the bay leaves and discard.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2026
  • Dozens climbed into the cargo bay.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Those sons’ of guns across the bay sky blasted ducks that were coming to your spread.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025

bay

2 of 2 verb
  • The dogs bay the sable, and then poachers move in with spears.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 July 2024
  • The bear was bayed once again quickly but close enough for the hunters to arrive at the bay site and dispatch it.
    — Buckley T. Foster Special To The Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Seacrest encouraged him to bay back, setting Sawyer up for a howling good time.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There were just thousands of reviews on this silly T-shirt of three wolves baying at the moon.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
  • The baying studio audience felt the vibe, as did the four judges, all of whom turned to face the talent.
    — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Bay dogs, which are often curs or hounds, scent pigs out of cover, bark on the track, and bay them for the coup de grace—often when the pig turns to fight.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And the loss seemed to unleash some hidden resentments, some wolves that had been biding their time deep in the woods but were now baying at the door.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The baying scrum around the Renaissance masterpiece—and his height at the time—precluded a glimpse of her crook of a smile.
    — Mahoro Seward, Vogue, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The men yelled, growled and bayed until neighborhood dogs started barking; voices rose to a frenzied pitch, then subsided.
    — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2023
  • His 16-year-old daughter doesn’t know what life would be like without the barking and baying, high-energy creatures in her life.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 13 Feb. 2025
  • But if Biden is reelected, the Republican House will be baying for his blood.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Yet not a sound emerges from the baying mob, which has been instructed to pantomime their appreciation noiselessly.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But the median voter isn’t exactly baying for moderation and compromise.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Most orchestras that perform the piece choose to use recordings of dogs barking, but conductor Adam Fischer decided to showcase live expert baying in the piece.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • This account of Christ’s trial and torture in the days leading up to the crucifixion, which shows the Jews baying for his death, has been thought by some to have contributed to centuries of anti-Semitism.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
  • There are presently calls on Russian social media baying for an even more vicious response than Russia’s already continual strategic bombing of Ukrainian cities.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2023
  • Bowling at run-hungry batters on largely unforgiving pitches in vast, cacophonous stadiums with huge outfields in front of a partisan and at times baying crowd — plenty of English bowlers have found bowling in Australia akin to a Sisyphean task.
    — James Wallace, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025

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