inlet

Example Sentences

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That's because fish have to swim within two metres of the pipe inlet heads, and the estuary is 22km wide at that point.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

Scotland's First Minister John Swinney however expressed dismay that he had only heard about the tanker being in the Scottish inlet of Moray Firth via media reports.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

To mark the occasion, Sheikh Mohamed invited Zhao to his ornate private palace where he typically welcomed foreign dignitaries, hidden from the city across an inlet by a dense bank of trees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Tomales Bay is a long inlet off the Pacific, about 15 miles long and a mile wide.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

The shining thing had been a long inlet of the sea.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis