How to Use embayment in a Sentence

embayment

noun
  • Instead, its aircraft returned with the first aerial views of the embayment.
    — Marissa Grunes, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Before its demise, the Larsen B Ice Shelf had applied back pressure against glaciers flowing out into the embayment.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The Gotham towers would stand next to Bushwick Inlet, a rare natural embayment and ecological treasure finally scheduled to open this spring.
    — Katherine Thompson, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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.
    — Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • 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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