Explore Estuary through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like water. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Estuary in a sentence
Estuary meaning
- A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
- An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
Synonyms of Estuary
Using Estuary
- The main meaning on this page is: A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone. | An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
- Useful related words include: body of water, water.
- In the example corpus, estuary often appears in combinations such as: the estuary, river estuary, thames estuary.
Context around Estuary
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Estuary
- In this selection, "estuary" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, river, wyre, thames, country, view and locations stand out and add context to how "estuary" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include to wyre estuary country park and across the estuary in rock. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "estuary" sits close to words such as altman, announcer and aubameyang, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with estuary
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s a tiny bit of scrubland that looks out on the Clyde Estuary. (14 words)
Maryport is an attractive harbourside town on the Solway Estuary at the edge of the Lake District. (17 words)
Memorably in when Kungsholm anchored in the Chao Phraya estuary, a couple of rice barges were brought alongside. (18 words)
They were taken from the St. Lawrence River estuary until the late 1960s, after which they were predominantly taken from the Churchill River estuary until capture was banned in 1992. citation Russia then became the largest provider. (37 words)
Competing views, however, usually have to reinterpret "estuary" to mean something other than an estuary, as the west of the Baltic Sea is the only body of estuarial water of sufficient length in the region. (35 words)
Part of the company's mission with the floating sauna is to educate users about the health of the river estuary, which has undergone decades of cleanup after a century of industrial pollution. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
Gateway to Wyre Estuary Country Park – The project will create a welcoming and accessible gateway to Wyre Estuary Country Park.
This includes funding for the Manawatū Estuary, which is an internationally recognised biodiversity hot spot, the Rangitīkei Estuary, and coastal dunes restoration projects.
Competing views, however, usually have to reinterpret "estuary" to mean something other than an estuary, as the west of the Baltic Sea is the only body of estuarial water of sufficient length in the region.
They were taken from the St. Lawrence River estuary until the late 1960s, after which they were predominantly taken from the Churchill River estuary until capture was banned in 1992. citation Russia then became the largest provider.
A separate development company, Estuary View Enterprises 2020, is behind the two separate apartment schemes, both strategic housing development (SHD) projects, proposed on the Bessborough site, which combined could deliver 420 apartments.
Bunting’s research showed that the tarpon and snook will stay in the ponds from one to three years, but the closer they are to the estuary the earlier they might leave.
Earlier this week, I decided to get off at Starcross, a sometimes overlooked village situated on the western part of the Exe Estuary.
Fellow celebrity chef runs a Michelin-starred restaurant in the town and has a home across the estuary in Rock.
He likens erosion along the coastland, especially between Volta Estuary and Aflao as one of the greatest environmental threats in Ghana.
He recommended building two asymmetrical islands in the Thames Estuary to absorb the impact of a tsunami before the wave reaches the city.
However, the Blue Influencers Scheme’s focus is on coastal, riverside and estuary locations and also emphasises giving young people opportunities to learn skills which will aid their employment prospects.
I live in Eastham, Wirral, and it was travelling, I'd say, from the Wales direction towards the Mersey estuary near south Liverpool.
In 1987, the Milwaukee River estuary was designated an “Area of Concern” by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is a designation given to seriously degraded waterways.
It’s a tiny bit of scrubland that looks out on the Clyde Estuary.
Maryport is an attractive harbourside town on the Solway Estuary at the edge of the Lake District.
Memorably in when Kungsholm anchored in the Chao Phraya estuary, a couple of rice barges were brought alongside.
On the other hand, we are feeling the impacts of heavy rainfall on the South Coast of NSW as every estuary south of Sydney is currently closed for harvest.
On the tours, customers can learn about the history of the Thames Estuary all from the comfort of their boats Daisy Margaret and Starfish.
Originally, the ball dropped at 13:00 BST each day allowing ships on the River Hull and the Humber estuary to set their clocks.
Part of the company's mission with the floating sauna is to educate users about the health of the river estuary, which has undergone decades of cleanup after a century of industrial pollution.
Common combinations with estuary
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the estuary 47×
- river estuary 21×
- thames estuary 18×
- estuary and 13×
- estuary in 9×
- estuary to 8×
- estuary was 8×
- estuary which 7×
- estuary of 7×
- an estuary 6×