embayment
Americannoun
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a coastal recess that forms a bay.
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Physical Geography. the process by which a bay is formed.
noun
Etymology
Origin of embayment
Example Sentences
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In January 2022, the landfast sea ice in the embayment suddenly broke apart, likely due to powerful ocean swells that destabilized the region.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
The Tonto wends into a huge, red-walled embayment, called the Inferno, and our view — while stirring — holds distressingly steady.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2021
In the East Siberian Sea, they steered the Pangaea into an embayment in the ice cap that Ousland, who closely studies satellite images of the Arctic, had observed growing for years.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 24, 2020
Flag Fen was a series of wooden trackways constructed between two areas of high ground at a time when the sea level slowly flooded the low-lying embayment.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2012
Into an embayment between two of the out-stretching spurs Barbato conducts them.
From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne
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