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
  • Then, the fort overlooked the lake, and the bayou spread wider across the land.
    — NOLA.com, 19 July 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
  • Boat trips are also offered on the bayou from spring to fall.
    — Anna Mazurek, Chron, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Two more trawlers broke free and drifted away into the bayou.
    — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Ride a bike, stretch in a sculpture garden, and kayak a bayou.
    — Jenny Adams, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2026
  • Bray, his son and son-in-law, settled somewhere along the bayou.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Riders then board a log flume for a unique adventure down the bayou.
    — Leslie D. Rose, Parents, 3 July 2024
  • Aviators haul bundles of old trees and drop them in the bayou.
    — Rebekah Castor, Fox News, 18 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • The nearest city, Lake Charles, is an hour’s drive through the bayou.
    — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Part of an Amtrak train fell off a trestle into the bayou and caught fire.
    — Alexandrea Penn, CNN, 15 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • The uncle escaped through a half-open window as the van sank nose-first into the bayou.
    — Gabe Gutierrez and Tracy Connor, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Guests join her and Louis the Alligator in a search through the bayou for a band.
    — Sandy Hooper, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The bayou rhythms already had some people dancing in the area between the pavilion’s seats and its lawn.
    — Kevin McKeough, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Shirley was buried in a segregated graveyard under live oaks, on a bayou.
    — Jesmyn Ward, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • But in the bayou parishes, southwest of New Orleans, qui is used for both.
    — Aubri Juhasz, NPR, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The east bank of the bayou forms the western boundary of Fontainebleau State Park.
    — Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • 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 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
  • Deaton, found on the banks of a Houston bayou, had been raped and fatally stabbed with an ice pick and was a friend of Bible’s cousin.
    — Michael Graczyk, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2018
  • Here the lodge’s rangers transport us on boats, searching for hippos who give themselves away by clusters of bubbles rising to the surface of the bayou.
    — Lucie Grace, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026

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