Explore Embayment through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like bay or water. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Embayment in a sentence
Embayment meaning
- A bay. (the water)
- The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
Using Embayment
- The main meaning on this page is: A bay. (the water) | The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water) | A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- Useful related words include: bay, body of water, water.
Context around Embayment
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Embayment
- In this selection, "embayment" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mississippi, rochester and feature stand out and add context to how "embayment" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and rochester embayment on the and identified an embayment feature that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "embayment" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with embayment
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Some Lake Ontario areas of concern include the Oswego River and Rochester Embayment on the American side, and Hamilton Harbour and Toronto on the Canadian Side. (26 words)
These surveys also identified an embayment feature that may represent a shallow, fault bounded paleo-lakebed within the unconsolidated sediments that overlie the older volcanic and sedimentary “basement” rocks. (29 words)
Formed from thick layers of the river's silt deposits, the Mississippi Embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country, which resulted in the river's storied steamboat era. (33 words)
Formed from thick layers of the river's silt deposits, the Mississippi Embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country, which resulted in the river's storied steamboat era. (33 words)
These surveys also identified an embayment feature that may represent a shallow, fault bounded paleo-lakebed within the unconsolidated sediments that overlie the older volcanic and sedimentary “basement” rocks. (29 words)
Some Lake Ontario areas of concern include the Oswego River and Rochester Embayment on the American side, and Hamilton Harbour and Toronto on the Canadian Side. (26 words)
Example sentences (3)
These surveys also identified an embayment feature that may represent a shallow, fault bounded paleo-lakebed within the unconsolidated sediments that overlie the older volcanic and sedimentary “basement” rocks.
Formed from thick layers of the river's silt deposits, the Mississippi Embayment is one of the most fertile agricultural regions of the country, which resulted in the river's storied steamboat era.
Some Lake Ontario areas of concern include the Oswego River and Rochester Embayment on the American side, and Hamilton Harbour and Toronto on the Canadian Side.