Sample sentences for CHESAPEAKE BAY

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a large North Atlantic inlet between Virginia and Maryland (fed by Susquehanna River)

On September 5, 1781, under the Count de Grasse, it took part in the Battle of Chesapeake Bay.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Anyway, before I could start at the school, they sent us away on a training cruise in Chesapeake Bay.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
And how shall I describe my sensations when we were fairly sailing on Chesapeake Bay?
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The last one is either Washington, D.C., or else maybe Annapolis or Chesapeake Bay.
John Green -- Paper Towns
The KEWs headed for Earth were going to leave craters deeper than Chesapeake Bay.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
"How is it," he wonders aloud as he gazes blankly across Chesapeake Bay, "that a kid with so much compassion could cause his parents so much pain?"
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
"Keep going into Chesapeake Bay," Annabeth said.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
General, there are some nice places right here on the Chesapeake Bay.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Investigators had searched for weeks, never finding his body, and finally decided it had been washed away by the current out to the Chesapeake Bay.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
It empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
Alexandra Bracken -- The Darkest Minds
Howe's fleet was sighted in Chesapeake Bay on August 21.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Anyway, you can't compare sailing on Lake Michigan with sailing on the Chesapeake Bay.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
Maryland's Smith Island, in the Chesapeake Bay, was settled in the late seventeenth century by people originally from southwestern England.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Going down their east coast, we give treatment to two Delaware Bay cities, then two on Chesapeake Bay, one being of max historical and sentimental importance.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
In all likelihood he was the only waterman on the Chesapeake Bay whose boat was named for a woman lawyer out of Shakespeare.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
CHESAPEAKE BAY forms the western boundary of the section of Maryland which is sometimes called Tidewater Maryland, sometimes called the Eastern Shore.
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
At that moment she was a young girl standing on a wharf at Merry Point, Virginia, waiting for the Chesapeake Bay steamer with her father, who had been dead sixty-one years.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
Summoned by an armed guard dressed casually as a weekend guest in white slacks and a loose, bulky white linen jacket, John St. Jacques walked into the library of their new safe house, an estate on Chesapeake Bay.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
So somehow Leslie was transformed into Maria Hunt, with whom I lay tangled on a sandy beach of the Chesapeake Bay at high noon in summertime; in my fancy her frantic eyes rolled up beneath the lids and she chewed through the lobe of my ear.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Only as the local train shambled into the low-forested clayland of Westmoreland County, did he feel once more identified with his surroundings; at the station he saw a star he knew, and a cold moon bright over Chesapeake Bay; he heard the rasping wheels of buckboards turning, the lovely fatuous voices, the sound of sluggish primeval rivers flowing softly under soft Indian names.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

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