tidewater

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Recent Examples of tidewater Here are a few of our favorites from the West: Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska Glacier Bay National Park, in southeast Alaska, is a jaw-dropping wilderness where massive tidewater glaciers calve into icy waters and humpback whales surface with breathtaking grace. USA Today, 11 June 2025 The Potomac, one of the good Eastern black-bass rivers, offers some 400 miles of fair-to-excellent fishing-mostly smallmouths upstream from Great Falls on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., and largemouths in the tidewater downstream. Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025 This, of course, was all integrated into Wright’s classic style: The home is made from brick and red tidewater cypress, with concrete floors and plaster ceilings. Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025 The Potomac River stretches for 380 miles and four states, starting in the Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia and following into the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland. Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tidewater
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Noun
  • Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.
    Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Whitmer, in November 2020, sent notice of her intention to revoke the state's 1953 easement with the company allowing the pipelines underwater on the Straits of Mackinac bottomlands.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The astronauts focused some of their observations on Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the moon’s near and far sides.
    Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Biologists say salmon populations have declined due to a combination of factors, including dams, which have blocked off spawning areas, the loss of vital floodplain habitats and global warming, which is intensifying droughts and causing warmer temperatures in rivers.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Much of the Texas Medical Center, including the existing Ben Taub hospital, is already in the 500-year floodplain.
    Yilun Cheng, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The suit said the warehouse is in a flood plain, and that the sewage system couldn't keep up if 500 people are detained inside.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Gross said the astronauts will be able to see the Aristarchus Plateau, one of the youngest craters on the moon, as well as Grimaldi crater and the Oceano Procellarum, a lunar plain that might have been formed by an asteroid impact.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • However in low evening light, don’t be afraid to soak a cut bait in as little as a foot of water on flats near the larger holes.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Consider this your cue to put your favorite flats on the back burner for now and slip into a pair of perfect pumps instead.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The geological history of this valley goes back 300 to 350 million years when Pine Creek began cutting across what eventually became the Allegheny Plateau.
    Anthony Fredericks, Travel + Leisure, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The low snowfall in the valleys around the Great Salt Lake are symptoms of the lake's chronically low water levels, Abbott said.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The goal was to help preserve and protect the delicate valley and its fens.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Tidewater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidewater. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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