lakebed

Or lake bed

[leyk-bed]

noun

1. the bottom or floor of a lake.

Example Sentences

One recent afternoon, he stood on a ridge above a sprawling dry lakebed.

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“The playa,” a nearly six-square-mile patch on a 200-mile Pleistocene era lakebed, is what Burners call the festival zone.

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The prehistoric lakebed is located about 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, and saw its first motorised race in 1914.

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Those calling for a solution to raise the lake level include leaders of the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District, who estimate that the current shortfall leaves exposed about 2 square miles of dust-spewing lakebed.

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“The most feasible solution is raising the lake level,” said Ann Logan, the district’s air pollution control officer, standing on salt-encrusted lakebed that would be submerged if the target level were achieved.

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