How to Use estuary in a Sentence

estuary

noun
  • And the news is better for those who fish in coastal estuaries and rivers.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 15 June 2023
  • This way, the dye is carried out of the estuary into the coastal ocean.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Then between two fairy tale chateaux, the estuary of the Gironde.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Carlson said the estuary was set aside for wildlife and helps boost species that are in decline.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2018
  • The pilot lands at a deep green estuary at the head of Kizhuyak Bay.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 May 2016
  • Whelan led Hofman and me on a shore hike through the estuary.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
  • There are a few tufts of green, a few of red, weeds growing out of reach from the estuary’s saltwater.
    — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Some migrated to the main channel of the estuary and may have been flushed out into the ocean.
    — Ivano W. Aiello, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The move transformed the tidal estuary at the heart of the city into a sedentary river.
    — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The rocks indicate that area was once an estuary, where a river dumped into a tidal flat.
    — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • There are also a ton of coastal marshes and estuaries that draw black ducks and mallards.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Some areas of the estuary are diked to allow for farming, which means water no longer flows in or out with the tides.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Longfin smelt live in bays and estuaries along the Pacific coast.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2024
  • The water, a mix of silt and clay, is a ruddy chocolate brown all the way out to the estuary where the river meets the bay.
    — Katherine Laidlaw, Wired, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Tidepool touch tanks, see coastal and estuary birds, check out the Teaching Lab, walk a loop trail.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 26 Mar. 2017
  • In and of itself, the scene is no different from the fringe of countless estuaries.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The fish are feeder kings that have moved into the Chetco estuary to eat anchovies.
    — sacbee, 31 July 2017
  • This succulent grows in thin, green stalks along beaches, in salt marshes and estuaries of much of the world.
    — Michael Gardiner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2019
  • The Delta is the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The delta, a vast tidal estuary that sits on the eastern edge of the Bay Area, is fed by the state’s two largest rivers.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 June 2021
  • These sharks are thought to be bottom-feeders, preying on fish that frequent the floors of rivers and estuaries.
    — John P. Rafferty, Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In the estuary of the Gironde, like in Rauzan-Ségla and Canon, time seems to stand still.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The Cucapá still push wooden boats into the estuary to fish for corvina.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The event was to inform the public of the health of New England’s largest estuary.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • Boyer said the marine lab, the only one in the area, is situated on the largest estuary in the state.
    — Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • What are some threats to, the Mobile Bay, to the estuary, to the watershed here in the area?
    — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The plants that thrived in that ecosystem formed protective estuaries.
    — Melina Walling, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The largest estuary in North America, the bay is known for its beauty and bounty.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • The water in the seven-mile-long tidal estuary on Monterey Bay got cleaner.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The estuary is open every single day from sunrise to sunset and is free to access; however, there are a few key rules to know.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026

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