bight
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Even with a young team, the Anteaters advanced to the Big West Tournament final, so the future should be bight.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2018
“BP have said goodbye to the bight, I say good riddance to BP,” Hanson-Young said.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2016
The shallow bight, more than a mile wide in places, runs east to west and cuts Andros roughly in half.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015
The boardwalk weaves along the bight from the ferry terminal on Grinnell to the end of Front Street.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2015
‘Bosun’s mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn’t confess his sins double quick,’ said the British captain.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
The map was full of promises of the undiscovered, coves and lookout points, brooks and bights each harboring a secret second chance.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
On the northern coast of the rocky island a bold promontory or rugged tongue of land, Mount Sceberras, separates two deep bights or inlets.
From The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole
Mosquitoes will breed also in the small still bights along the edges of running streams; in old tomato cans that contain rain water; in any still water, fresh or salt.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
We returned by the west side of Jerdan Island, where there are bights which might afford shelter to a small vessel.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Robert Fitzroy
Forward the watch sat about in coils of rope and sheltered nooks or walked the deck unsteadily, and a glance aloft showed the captain his rigging hanging in bights and yards pointed every way.
From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson
“You don’t want to end up with a bighted community as a result of trying to implement drastic water conservation measures,” Fraser said.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2015
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