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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

Ten years later, Hurricane Isabel created a new inlet across the same island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 20, 2025

The floor of the Salinas Valley, between the ranges and below the foothills, is level because this valley used to be the bottom of a hundred- mile inlet from the sea.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck