Pamlico Sound
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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A storm surge warning was in effect from Duck, North Carolina, to Chincoteague, Virginia, including Chesapeake Bay south of Windmill Point, and for the Neuse River, the Pamlico River, and portions of Pamlico Sound.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
The 124-acre property lies along the Pamlico Sound on the highest part of the island, where gnarled live oaks more than 200 years old grow.
From Washington Times • Jul. 4, 2020
A seven-foot surge from Pamlico Sound washed over the island, gushing into people’s living rooms and burbling up through their heating vents and the cracks in their floorboards.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2019
The hurricane wrought much of its destruction through swift and severe storm surge from the Pamlico Sound, the long lagoon that separates the islands from the North Carolina mainland.
From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 2019
With several hours of daylight still ahead, they entered upon the great wide Pamlico Sound, which in places is all of twenty miles from shore to shore.
From Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida by Arundel, Louis
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