How to Use estuary in a Sentence

estuary

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  • In the estuary of the Gironde, like in Rauzan-Ségla and Canon, time seems to stand still.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • What are some threats to, the Mobile Bay, to the estuary, to the watershed here in the area?
    — Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Then between two fairy tale chateaux, the estuary of the Gironde.
    — Cécilia Pelloux, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The Delta is the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas.
    — Kathleen Ronayne, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2022
  • This way, the dye is carried out of the estuary into the coastal ocean.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The Chesapeake Bay, where these crabs come from, is the largest estuary in the United States.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 25 Aug. 2021
  • It’s prized for being off the grid, but it’s also an estuary on the brink.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The move transformed the tidal estuary at the heart of the city into a sedentary river.
    — Courtney Humphries, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2018
  • And the news is better for those who fish in coastal estuaries and rivers.
    — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 15 June 2023
  • Humber estuary is along the eastern coast of the U.K. and about 200 miles north of London.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 May 2024
  • 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
  • Less than 200 years ago, Dubai was a small fishing village and the Creek was just an estuary.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The endeavor in the Dornoch Firth, an estuary of the North Sea, is eight years along, and still moving forward.
    — Louise Schiavone, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2021
  • De Lappe, for one, has spent years chronicling abandoned and sunken boats in the estuary.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The largest estuary in North America, the bay is known for its beauty and bounty.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • Delta smelt are at the heart of the tensions over California's water supply and the health of the West Coast's largest estuary.
    — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 1 June 2018
  • The debris has long been cleared, but experts say the storm caused lasting damage to the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States.
    — Ashley Barrientos, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
  • Canoe the largest estuary in the Great Lakes, with visits to research stations and a birding area.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The Wilmington tide gauge is located upstream in the Cape Fear River, 29 miles from the mouth of the estuary.
    — Eric Niiler, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The cleaner Nisqually River estuary was used as the control.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Each of the guest rooms, most with large balconies, offers unobstructed views of the Sound, a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.
    — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 4 July 2022
  • The Cucapá still push wooden boats into the estuary to fish for corvina.
    — Ian Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Our Bay Area estuary is a confluence where fresh water from rivers and streams meet and mix with salt water from the ocean.
    — Marcela Davison Aviles, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Getty Once launched, passengers can expect a picturesque route with views of the Gulf and estuaries like Lake Pontchartrain, as well as access to charming coastal towns along the way.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Aug. 2024
  • For lower-adrenaline beach days, the estuary beach Playa de Laida is preferred.
    — Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024

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