bight

How To Use bight In A Sentence

• We'll go back around the point and into that last small bight we passed on our way here.
• Most of ours live aboard vessels moored more or less permanently outside the marina breakwater, in a shallow bight known as Fools' Anchorage.
• Worth waiting for, though: The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots.
• The following day was spent in examining a bight, but we were prevented from penetrating to the bottom by the shoalness of the water. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
• ­Elsewhere there is pealing for peeling ; bite for bight ; straights for straits ; gamble for gambol ; canon for cannon . Coastal Disturbances
• To all appearances, a runaway yacht was careering madly over the bight, and now and again yielding a little bit to control in a desperate effort to make Benicia. The King of the Greeks
• Photographer AJ Wilhelm and I have been chasing local and sustainable food - anything with fins, scales and gills -- wherever we could: we fished for bluefish off Orchard Beach in the Bronx, striped bass in the Verazzano Narrows, blackfish from the bottom of the New York Bight and everything that swims in Jamaica Bay. Aram Roston: Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City
• Accordingly, acting under his directions I placed myself within the bight, and tucking it well up under my arm-pits, slid the grummet up the trunk as high as it would go. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron
• At the head of the bight is a lagoon; but the entrance proving to be very shallow, and finding no security, we continued on our voyage; trusting that some place of shelter would present itself, if obliged to seek it by necessity. A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2
• They were positioned to the port side of the nose at our ten o'clock, in order to remain clear of the 3-wire's bight on the retract.