Chesapeake Bay
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Marks told Barron’s in 2021 that he owns a Danish-built sloop named Linnea that he had been fixing up for years, and sailed it in the Chesapeake Bay.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2025
Two years in, he gambled and switched to the Navy Academy at Annapolis, on Chesapeake Bay, in the hope of working with his beloved rockets.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
Less than a year later, another granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, and her 8-year-old son drowned in a canoeing accident in the Chesapeake Bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
By the summer of 1781, Isaac and the rest of Jefferson’s enslaved people had joined thousands of African Americans in this small tobacco port on the Chesapeake Bay.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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