embayment
noun
em·bay·ment
im-ˈbā-mənt 
1
: formation of a bay
2
: a bay or a conformation resembling a bay
Examples of embayment in a Sentence
a fingerlike embayment of the Bay of Fundy
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The Gotham towers would stand next to Bushwick Inlet, a rare natural embayment and ecological treasure finally scheduled to open this spring.
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Katherine Thompson, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
Regions in the upper Mississippi embayment are probably reactivating older faults that formed when the rift basin was formed, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2025
Officially an artificial embayment now, the estuarine Lake Montauk hasn’t been a lake, in fact, since developer Carl Fisher in his late-1920s quest to make Montauk into a sport fishing Mecca and the Miami of the North broke through to Block Island Sound and Atlantic waters.
—John Oseid, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
While geographically separated, these coastal embayments are connected by a common biophysical trait that binds them together as the world searches for a way to address the growing climate crisis.
—Serge Dedina, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2024
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Katherine Thompson, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
Regions in the upper Mississippi embayment are probably reactivating older faults that formed when the rift basin was formed, Boyd said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2025
Officially an artificial embayment now, the estuarine Lake Montauk hasn’t been a lake, in fact, since developer Carl Fisher in his late-1920s quest to make Montauk into a sport fishing Mecca and the Miami of the North broke through to Block Island Sound and Atlantic waters.
—John Oseid, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
While geographically separated, these coastal embayments are connected by a common biophysical trait that binds them together as the world searches for a way to address the growing climate crisis.
—Serge Dedina, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for embayment
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“Embayment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/embayment. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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