gulf
noun
a portion of an ocean or sea partly enclosed by land.
gulfy
-
a word derived from
gulf.
Example Sentences
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Among the trees Tiber, that beauteous river, with his gulfy rapids and the burden of his yellow sand, breaks into the main.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
Of all the chiefs, this hero's fate alone Has Jove reserved, unheard of, and unknown; Whether in fields by hostile fury slain, Or sunk by tempests in the gulfy main?
From The Odyssey by Alexander Pope
The forces last in fair array succeed, Which blameless Glaucus and Sarpedon lead The warlike bands that distant Lycia yields, Where gulfy Xanthus foams along the fields.
From The Iliad by Alexander Pope
So did they pass to the ford of the river of beautiful waters, Xanthus the gulfy, begotten of thunder-delighting Kronion; Then from the chariot he rose and ascended to lofty Olympus.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
His candles guide her with pomp funereal flaring, Out of the gulfy dark to the bier whereon he lies.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
