estuary

Example Sentences

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For most metals, TRI values were below 1, indicating no significant non-carcinogenic risk for adults consuming these foods from the Doce River estuary.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

“Restoration is the name of the game, not intrusion,” Mike told me, and he wasn’t talking just about the estuary.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

She also helped Mike and others take the estuary restoration fight to Sacramento, to Washington, D.C., and to Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Now sitting on the inter-tidal mudflats of the estuary, they have created a new land mass on the edge of the existing saltmarsh at Northey Island.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

The town lay on a broad estuary, its old yellow plastered buildings hugging the beach.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck