bight

Equinor was first granted a petroleum title over areas in the bight in 2011.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2019

Even with a young team, the Anteaters advanced to the Big West Tournament final, so the future should be bight.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2018

The shallow bight, more than a mile wide in places, runs east to west and cuts Andros roughly in half.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015

The boardwalk weaves along the bight from the ferry terminal on Grinnell to the end of Front Street.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2015

‘Bosun’s mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn’t confess his sins double quick,’ said the British captain.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The map was full of promises of the undiscovered, coves and lookout points, brooks and bights each harboring a secret second chance.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016

However, as I perceived that he had worked himself into a perfect fury, up I went, and to the topgallant-mast-head, embracing the royal pole with one arm, and standing on the bights of the rigging.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

This began to worry me and finally I lashed the tiller—fastening it in the bights of two 77ropes prepared for that purpose, and crept back into the cabin again.

From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by Foster, W. Bertram

Mosquitoes will breed also in the small still bights along the edges of running streams; in old tomato cans that contain rain water; in any still water, fresh or salt.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

If admitted, this claim would give American fishermen the right of entrance to huge British bights and bays full of valuable fish.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald

“You don’t want to end up with a bighted community as a result of trying to implement drastic water conservation measures,” Fraser said.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 14, 2015