Example Sentences

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The map was full of promises of the undiscovered, coves and lookout points, brooks and bights each harboring a secret second chance.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2016

This began to worry me and finally I lashed the tiller—fastening it in the bights of two 77ropes prepared for that purpose, and crept back into the cabin again.

From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by Foster, W. Bertram

When I tell you I found that yellow thing snooping around the davits, and three bights of the boat-fall loosened out, plain on deck—you grin behind your collar.

From The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

The term is also used for putting the bights of the sheets in the beckets.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

As the boom swung in, the sheet, of course, slackened up, and the bights, going over the quarter-deck, had caught everything in the way.

From The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document by Anonymous