swimming hole

Example Sentences

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Fed from glaciers on Mount Shasta, the water pours out of lava tubes and down mossy cliffs, forming a verdant and ethereal cascade into a calm, shaded swimming hole.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

We pass a fast-food spot called Jake’s Place, and a scenic patch of land next to the sea with a sign that reads: "Ye olde swimming hole and picnic area."

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024

Months before the riots, a young man named José Díaz was stabbed to death near a swimming hole that became known as Sleepy Lagoon in southeast L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

This past winter’s flooding might have also shifted logs, gravel and other material around in local rivers, creating new potential hazards at a swimming hole that might not have been there last summer, True said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

She’d just about decided this was how she would die: drowning in a swimming hole on an island that didn’t exist.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan