lagoon
Example Sentences
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It has the largest tidal reedbed in England and wildfowl and waders feed and nest in the six shallow lagoons, marshland and mudflats.
From BBC
I was traveling at a good five or six miles an hour, well ahead of Oteg, on a lagoon formed by the Innoko River, when the trail began to tremble.
From Literature
After a false start at a resort off Trieste, he arrives in Venice and rides across the lagoon to nearby Lido.
Initially, “Lord of the Flies” is all childish adventure: swimming in a lagoon, climbing a mountain.
Along the oil-streaked shores of Lake Maracaibo — actually a massive coastal lagoon, fed by both freshwater rivers and the Caribbean — the vestiges of a once-thriving enterprise stand out like totems from a past civilization.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
