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Bay of Biscay

NOUN
  1. an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain

How To Use Bay of Biscay In A Sentence

  • The P&O liner Egypt sank in the Bay of Biscay in 1922, loaded with gold, silver and coins worth £36m at today's rates.
  • The passage from Ireland was quite rough with the vessel encountering storm force winds and high seas for days crossing the Bay of Biscay.
  • Their target is the larger "industrial" vessels, after a "vertiginous fall" in anchovy catches in the Bay of Biscay. Frog eats Frog
  • They sailed through the Bay of Biscay.
  • He has fished tuna in the Bay of Biscay and off the south west coast.
  • It is set in a valley, through which runs a river that skirts the Bay of Biscay.
  • But the highest waves have been reported off the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, where they have been observed, on rare occasions, from 30 to 40 ft high; and 36 ft. has been given as the admeasurement in the Bay of Biscay, under very exceptional circumstances. Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887
  • The winds and waves of the Bay of Biscay have not much consciousness, and yet they have with great care “selected,” from among an infinity of masses of silex of all shapes and sizes, which have been submitted to their action, all the grains of sand below a certain size, and have heaped them by themselves over a great area. Essays
  • From that vessel he conducted a series of commando-style raids against the French along the Cantabrian coast of northeastern Spain, on the Bay of Biscay, near Basque country. Archive 2009-03-01
  • On reaching the Bay of Biscay the wind died down and we were becalmed for 9 days.
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