tidewater

Example Sentences

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Just west of Juneau, this breathtaking national park and preserve boasts some of the world’s most spectacular tidewater glaciers, such as Margerie Glacier, which often drops colossal chunks of ice into the sea.

From Seattle Times

The canal had 74 locks that raised and lowered boats in transit, due to the 605-foot change in elevation from the highlands of Cumberland to tidewater Georgetown.

From Washington Post

"The parts of Virginia that are more like West Virginia and much less like the I-95 corridor and the tidewater region, they're the ones that are reaching out to us," Howell said.

From Fox News

That said, before the tidewaters rise and low-lying cities drown in a tsunami of retrospectives and remember-whens, we do have one last rundown you need to see:

From Golf Digest

Some 85 percent of the city flooded this week as the highest tidewaters in more than 50 years inundated its historic core.

From Washington Post