Sentence examples for embayments from inspiring English sources

The coast whose configuration marked by numerous embayments gave rise to Massachusetts's nickname, the Bay State winds from Rhode Island around Cape Cod, in and out of scenic harbours along the shore south of Boston, through Boston Harbor and up the North Shore, swinging around the painters' paradise of Cape Ann to New Hampshire.

Isolated from the main plateau by the embayments of the Kepili River, the upland there displays a rugged topography.

The lands ringing the Mediterranean Sea include some of the world's most renowned tourist destinations, which lie either directly on the sea or its embayments (e.g., the French and Italian Riviera and Athens) or are close by (e.g., Rome and the Holy Land of the Middle East).

Shallow shelf-sea embayments of limited distribution occurred landward of these troughs and are represented mainly by limestones in low latitudes, as around the margins of the Tethys Sea.

Its southern coastline is deeply indented by the Sibuguey and Dumanquilas embayments.

It covers about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km), and would be essentially circular except for the outflaring Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches toward the southern tip of South America (some 600 miles [970 km] away), and for two principal embayments, the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea.

Menominee, city, seat (1861) of Menominee county and the southernmost city in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, U.S. It is located on Green Bay (an embayment of Lake Michigan) at the mouth of the Menominee River opposite Marinette, Wisconsin, with which it is connected by three bridges.

Several possibilities exist with regard to the origin of the Ross Sea continental embayment.

The city was built at the mouth of this embayment, which opens onto the great plain to the south and east, and between two rivers, the Yongding and the Chaobai, which eventually join to empty into the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) in Tianjin municipality, some 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Beijing.

The Yellow Sea, including the Bo Hai and Korea Bay, forms a flat, shallow, and partly enclosed marine embayment.

It is situated just northeast of Sendai, facing Matsushima Bay (an embayment of the Pacific Ocean).