tidewater

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Recent Examples of tidewater 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 With construction permits approved and development underway, the Alaska LNG Pipeline will connect the North Slope's substantial reserves—estimated at 35 trillion cubic feet—to tidewater, facilitating shipments across the Pacific. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025 In 1954, the architect completed designs for a Usonian home constructed from local sandstone and imported tidewater red cypress, with a copper roof. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidewater
Noun
  • Mike was in a bottomland tree stand ahead of us, near the edge of the property.
    Jim Moore, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For Gerard, a fourth-generation crop farmer, only in his 20s, working the fields of the Mississippi River bottomlands in Alexander County, Illinois, there was no sense in fighting the water anymore.
    Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Health inspectors cited the soul food restaurant after discovering that the kitchen handwashing sink was blocked with multiple plastic buckets in the sink basin.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Madeline Heim has broadened her focus to include public health, another area of expertise, and continues to keep an eye on the Mississippi River basin.
    GREG BOROWSKI, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In July, the Benbrook Planning and Zoning Commission recommended rezoning a portion of the Mary’s Creek floodplain to allow Corey Waldrop, 37, of Fort Worth, to develop a 178-home community called Rowan Ranch near the intersection of West Loop 820 and Veterans Parkway.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The floodplain has been redrawn wider than ever, outlawing home construction in new danger zones.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Shahjahanpur district, where Pari was found, lies in the fertile, populous plains of north India.
    Aishwarya S. Iyer, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Up to 2 inches could fall in the Southern Rocky Mountain Front and adjacent foothills and plains.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The chunky knit and slightly slouchy fit feels just right for layering—try it with jeans and suede ballet flats for a monochromatic brown moment, or over a white tee for slight contrast.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Wear them to the office with a sweater vest layered over a button-down shirt and ballet flats, or dress them up with a blouse and kitten-heel boots.
    Emily Weaver, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Though expert hikers can make the round trip in a day, many take up to three, granting extra time to float in swimming holes, scope out waterfalls, and take in the hanging valleys and lush forests pouring into the sea.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The goal was to help preserve and protect the delicate valley and its fens.
    John Meyer, Denver Post, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Out in the wild, the queen-of-the-prairie grows in moist black soil prairies and meadows, fens, seeps and springs.
    Sheryl DeVore, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025

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

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