bight
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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
“If BP with all its experience cannot produce an acceptable drilling plan for Nopsema, the remaining companies exploring in the bight will be wasting their shareholders’ money trying to pursue this folly,” he said.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2016
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
As she left Camp Four at the front of Fischer’s group, Lopsang abruptly pulled her aside and girth-hitched a bight of rope to the front of her climbing harness.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
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
It consists in making two long bights in a rope, which shall overlay one another; then taking a half hitch over the end of each bight, with the standing part, which is next to it.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The shroud-knot with three strands single walled round the bights of the other three and the standing part.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
I kan tell whi the flea bights, whi the bull bellers, and whi the rinosseross hasn’t got but one tusk, and that on the top of his knoze.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
“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
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