How to Use lagoon in a Sentence

lagoon

noun
  • Many of them weren’t even from the lagoon.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Many of these pterosaurs weren’t native to the lagoon at all.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The cliffs jut out and the lagoon funnels the fog to the trees.
    — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The tide was pulling me away, along the river to the open lagoon.
    — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The lot has a lawn, a patio, and a boat launch on the lagoon.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 24 July 2022
  • In the lagoon room, see more mermaids!
    — Olivia Kan-Sperling, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • Fish from a kayak or from one of the sandy beaches that line the lagoon.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Here are five places to visit on your next trip to the city on the lagoon.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • On the lagoon, red orbs, sheathed in black nets, bob on the surface.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • They were flung into the lagoon.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
  • You’re met off the plane by staff who take you for a cold drink at the bar right by the lagoon.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Full lagoons; warm, not too hot; rains have passed, but the gateway towns are busy.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The new bridge will improve water flow in and out of the lagoon.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Lamps glow around the lagoon as if set for a candlelit dinner.
    — Rick Jordan, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • But reported plans to dock the yacht in a lagoon might have changed.
    — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
  • The edge of the lagoon is 75 meters long.
    — Brienne Walsh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But how did nonlocal pterosaurs end up in the lagoon?
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Sand from the lagoon was used to build up the nearby beach at Cardiff.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The same is proposed for the lagoon near the sandbar berm.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 8 Jan. 2026
  • There is nothing like sitting in the lagoon at the end of the day, to us.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But over the past few years, the idyllic lagoon has come under threat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But over the past few years, the idyllic lagoon has come under threat.
    — New York Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • There are ample places to stand around the lagoon and see the kites in action.
    — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The other is a foot trail on his land, which travels along the lagoon.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The other is a foot trail on his land, which travels along the lagoon.
    — Calmatters, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The lagoons and river are stocked with rainbow trout from fall through spring.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 30 Oct. 2019
  • But many guests are content to just hang out on the beach and wade into the lagoon.
    — Laurie Werner, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • Much of the time, the lagoons would have been calm, with shallow waters.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Short boat ride to dramatic drift dive in a pass where the open ocean feeds a lagoon.
    — John Briley, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The walk is 1 1/2 hours round trip on the lagoon trail and is open to all ages.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025

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