lakebed
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Satellite images show rapid expansion of exposed lakebed as the water has receded.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
The remarkably well-preserved fossil skeleton was uncovered in ancient lakebed sediments at Haughton Crater on Devon Island in Nunavut.
From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026
These are hardened, mound-like structures formed by microbial communities on the lakebed.
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
“The playa,” a nearly six-square-mile patch on a 200-mile Pleistocene era lakebed, is what Burners call the festival zone.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025
The train carried him to a perpetual dust storm known as Ephrata, Washington, where there was an air base in the middle of a dry lakebed.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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