An estuary is an area of the river that is full of interesting life forms. From LearnThat.org.
You can fish from shore anywhere in estuary or the beach with fresh shrimp. From Wordnik.com. [hey guys im back, i just graduated boot camp,im headed to pensacola fl.] Reference
Playa del Rey and the Huichol sacred island lie across an estuary from the customs house. From Wordnik.com. [Nayarit: San Blas, Tepic and in between] Reference
An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Poses: On the Road: Farm Stands of the Hudson River Valley, NY] Reference
He'll take a helicopter tour of the thin orange line of protective booms that divides thousands of acres of estuary from the toxic tides. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans] Reference
The Amazon estuary is a dynamic lowland consisting of Holocene (less than 10,000 years old) sediments surrounded by slightly older Tertiary deposits. From Wordnik.com. [Marajó varzea] Reference
The estuary was a lagoon chock full of fish and mollusks. From Wordnik.com. [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference
At the estuary are a number of small islets well suited for the emplacement of powerful guns. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
Yet there have been accusations that some in Government have already decided that damming the estuary is the only show in town. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The major rivers emptying into the estuary are the Coos and the Millicoma, which supply 66% of the fresh water entering the system. From Wordnik.com. [South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon] Reference
Or you can go round the coast in a fishing boat if the weather is good enough for entering the estuary, which is uncharted and unbuoyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rainbow and the Rose]
The mouth of the estuary is a mile wide, but an island lying in mid-channel divides the river into two parts just where it enters the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.] Reference
I love the word "estuary",and I agree, can't think of a word that quite captures it. From Wordnik.com. [Shucking oysters, mucking words] Reference
Sruwaddacon estuary, the estuary is a Special Area of Conservation and Special Protected Area. From Wordnik.com. [Indymedia Ireland] Reference
On our return to the hotel we crossed a large estuary which is spanned by several bridges. From Wordnik.com. [The Critic in the Orient] Reference
This kind of estuary tends to form in situations with low turbulences; therefore, little mixing occurs. From Wordnik.com. [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference
Note in the map below that the island was a river estuary, meaning it wasn't made out of rock as claimed. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Mr. FISHER: And yet, this is still a rich estuary. From Wordnik.com. [N.Y. Harbor School Seeks Sea Change In Education] Reference
It's a nearly pristine estuary on the Florida Panhandle. From Wordnik.com. [Florida Fishing Town On Edge Over Gulf Oil Spill] Reference
Roebach, pointing down the nearest estuary of the Coleville. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
In the estuary, and as far up as Chinkiang, sea-going papicoes from. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
(Soundbite of song, "History Song") Mr. ALBARN: (Singing) The estuary Sundays lost in melancholy. From Wordnik.com. [Albarn's The Good, The Bad, and The Queen] Reference
The squirming did not stop until one day, a boy was found by shell-gatherers aflot on the estuary. From Wordnik.com. [Inroads] Reference
The Derwent in the south is the largest river, and vessels may go almost to the head of its estuary. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They're arriving from Indias east coast, after a short journey across the soupy flat waters of a giant estuary. From Wordnik.com. [The Sacred Island That's Shrinking Away] Reference
To the right was a gorse-crowned cliff; to the left, and across the estuary, a headland ran far out into the water. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
SHOGREN: She says in the estuary lots of marine animals regularly move from the wetlands to the open water and back. From Wordnik.com. [Louisiana Sandbar Plan Worries Some Scientists] Reference
Alabama and Tombigby, is but the estuary at the head of Mobile Bay, silted up with detritus by the entering streams. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
And just this week, oil has started washing ashore in this part of Plaquemines Parish, an estuary called Pass a Loutre. From Wordnik.com. [Oil Threatens Brown Pelican Off Of Louisiana Coast] Reference
What prompted the concern in the environmental decline in Barnegat Bay, a 30-mile estuary once famous for its fisheries. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Christopher: Bill to Restrict Use of Lawn Fertilizers in New Jersey] Reference
They traveled unsteadily, too, tacking back and across the estuary, because the breeze was so light, and no longer astern. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Parents of Terry Jupp tell coroner MoD safety procedures during secretive experiment on Thames estuary island were inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [Inquest begins into secret MoD bomb trial death] Reference
The last few miles, during which they could not see beyond the high ice-shod banks of the estuary, were traversed slowly enough. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Seven miles out to sea, along the frontier between the Atlantic Ocean and the estuary, an island had risen out of the boiling waters. From Wordnik.com. [Fragile habitat of French mystery island 'risks being trampled underfoot'] Reference
Chorley Old Hall stands on high wooded land, about a mile from the coast, having a view across the estuary, and out to the sea itself. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
So the cruiser steamed rapidly up the coast, and was soon at the mouth of the stream, which seemed to be the estuary of some great river. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
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