lough

chiefly Irish

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of lough Along with a grassy walled garden, an arboretum, the property has nearly three miles of lough frontage and shooting rights across a total of 3,000 acres. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025 On the shores of Belfast's lough, The Culloden Estate and Spa is a serene escape from the buzzy city scene. Ciara McQuillan, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lough
Noun
  • At its northern end, where the creek meets the lake, the trail connects with the Erie Canalway Trail, which is part of the 750-mile Empire State Trail network, opening up even more routes to explore.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The peaceful atmosphere became more excited when a flood of thousands more demonstrators arrived to the lake’s amphitheater, having marched from Wilma Chan Park a half-mile away.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Few among us would hesitate to wade into a pond to save a drowning child.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ahead of the third season — which premiered in October 2025 — The Diplomat has already been renewed for a fourth season, promising a whole new advent of drama across both sides of the pond.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What with its rippling mountains, meditative lochs, and misty woodlands, Scotland’s moody atmosphere hits its stride in the cooler seasons.
    Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Donal, a nightclub owner in Chicago obsessed with the blues, has resisted going back to the land of lochs for reasons that will become only somewhat clear over the course of the run time.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Bayobab’s headquarters in Côte d’Ivoire lies just north of Abidjan’s long lagoon, in a hilly neighborhood perversely called Plateau.
    Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The waterfront would be transformed into a large marina, with piers and floating docks off the shore by the old Flipper Dolphin lagoon theater and wrapping around most of the waterfront, along with racks for storing smaller boats on land and heavy machinery depositing them in the water as needed.
    Pedro Portal, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And now there’s a refillable reservoir for the drugs that can be implanted in the eye.
    Liz Szabo, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • As of Monday morning, most major reservoirs in California were performing above average for this time of year, according to a graphic from the California DWR.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
  • What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024

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“Lough.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lough. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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