inlet
Example Sentences
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“Rip currents are typically more frequent and stronger in the vicinity of jetties, inlets, and piers.”
From Los Angeles Times
Airbus outlined three fixes, the most radical of which moves the inlet to the top of the jet and which would reduce “smell in cabin” events by 85%, according to an internal presentation.
Ten years later, Hurricane Isabel created a new inlet across the same island.
Tomales Bay is a long inlet off the Pacific, about 15 miles long and a mile wide.
From Los Angeles Times
Ireland has almost 2,000 miles of coastline, much of it ideal for smuggling, with many hundreds of isolated inlets.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.