embayments's Usage Examples:

Tides and currents The region consists of a deeper channel in the west, with shallower embayments in the east.

Hence the coast as a whole is irregular, with numerous embayments, peninsulas and islands; and in Maine this irregularity reaches a disadvantageous climax.

There is evidence that birds moved away from the oiled embayments as a result.

Road improvements, or construction of new roads, often involve ' straightening ` the shoreline or building causeways across small embayments.

Most of the recent movements appear to have been upward, for the coast presents few embayments such as would result from the depression and partial submergence of a disse~ted mountain range; but three important exceptions must be made to this rule.

Sediment accumulations within groin embayments at Hamworthy Park also indicate a net west to east drift.

A section of the coastal plain, from North Carolina to southern New Jersey, resembles the plain farther south in general form and quality of soils, but besides being narrower, it is further characterized by several embayments or arms of the sea, caused by a slight depression of the land after mature valleys had been eroded in the plain.

Here biotite + sillimanite + quartz aggregates occupy embayments in a neosome garnet.

Synonyms:

bay, body of water, bight, Guantanamo Bay, sea, water,

Antonyms:

uncolored, territorial waters, international waters, high sea, unfasten,