estuary

in a sentence

A second shell screeches overhead, and Marie-Laure shrieks, and the chandelier above her head chimes as the shell detonates somewhere across the estuary.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

The East River, no river at all but a saltwater estuary nearly a mile wide, was famously difficult to navigate, with swift, contrary currents and tides of as much as six feet.  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

To her right, the muddy, frugal estuary of the Great Magdalena River spread out to the other side of the world.  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

Yoyo had been right: the river looked a lot lovelier just this short distance farther away from the estuary.  (source) Mal Peet, Tamar, 2005

Even here in mid-Pacific, far from the great estuaries that slowly swept the continents out to sea, that rain never ceased.†  (source) Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End, 1953

In the endless estuarial mingling of paranoia and control, the dossier was an essential device.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

The three launches cast off, sidled into the currentless estuary, and moved forward.  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

England was alive, throbbing through all her estuaries, crying for joy through the mouths of all her gulls, and the north wind, with contrary motion, blew stronger against her rising seas.†  (source) E. M. Forster, Howards End, 1910

She would get up in the dark and trundle a borrowed two-wheeled push-cart for two hours across the city to a section called Eba, at the mouth of one of the seven estuarial rivers that branch from the Ota River through Hiroshima.†  (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

I stayed in radar room and watched, at extreme magnification, while he placed one in estuary between Montevideo and Buenos Aires; Mike could not have been more accurate.†  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 1966

Then a thought which came to him — that soon the tide would be running in through the estuaries and his head would be submerged — inspired him to fearful activity; he wriggled and turned and exerted what strength he could (though his left arm, because of the pain in his shoulder, was useless), and before long he had freed himself from the vice.†  (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

Hiroshima was a fan-shaped city, lying mostly on the six islands formed by the seven estuarial rivers that branch out from the Ota River; its main commercial and residential districts, covering about four square miles in the center of the city, contained three-quarters of its population, which had been reduced by several evacuation programmes from a wartime peak of 380,000 to about 245,000.†  (source) John Hersey, Hiroshima, 1946

Estuary.†  (source) Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 1982