Mississippi Sound
Americannoun
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The Minerva Gloria is docked at a wharf in the Mississippi Sound, not far from the US's vast oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
I zipped past shipbuilding facilities and refineries, before cruising by grand historic homes watching over the Mississippi Sound.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
“The massive volumes of polluted fresh water diverted through the Bonnet Carré Spillway and into the Mississippi Sound caused direct and indirect mortality of resident bottlenose dolphins,” the lawsuit says.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2024
The influx of freshwater in the brackish Mississippi Sound damaged oyster, blue crab and shrimp fisheries.
From Salon • Aug. 19, 2019
It was some thirty leagues or more eastward to the country of the Biloxis, a beautiful land of low, evergreen hills looking out across the pine-covered sand-keys of Mississippi Sound to the Gulf of Mexico.
From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington
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