Great South Bay


noun
  1. an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.

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How to use Great South Bay in a sentence

  • Brookport itself lay inside, on the lagoon called the Great South Bay.

    Jill the Reckless | P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
  • The river, so called, was in fact an arm of the Great South Bay, and of course salt.

    Little Brothers of the Air | Olive Thorne Miller
  • The only profitable affair it ever undertook was to fill a small ice-pond near its entrance into the Great South Bay.

    Fisherman's Luck | Henry van Dyke
  • By this time they were well on their way across Great South Bay toward the inlet.

  • The long swell which gently rocked the boat was very unlike the short swells of the Great South Bay.