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Discover LudwigThe word "estuary" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to an area where a river meets the sea, either to describe the physical geography of the region or its biodiversity. Example sentence: "The estuary of the Rhine river provided a unique and diverse habitat for marine life."
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estuary
noun
Coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge.
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Britain's largest airport group craves a third runway at Heathrow airport but that is highly unlikely, so every noise it makes on the need for more capacity plays into the hands of Boris Johnson's estuary airport campaign.
Lashed by sleet on the milk-chocolate waters of the Medway estuary, I was frozen, seasick and desperately unimpressed by the view.
Every landed herring in the protected segment of the Blackwater estuary bears the MSC logo on its delivery box.
His problem is not overfishing by foreign boats or pollution in the Thames estuary.
Essex police are investigating reports that local boat owners are offering trips to would-be sightseers wanting to catch a glimpse of a pod of 40 pilot whales spotted in the Blackwater estuary.
Immediately below are draining, light-reflecting channels of the Dwyryd estuary.
And the Bélon river estuary boasts the best oyster beds in the world.
Projects that will benefit include £80m for the Humber estuary, more than £17m for Tonbridge, Yalding and the surrounding communities, £196m for the Thames estuary programme, £73m for the Boston barrier, £42m for the Oxford western conveyance, and £47m for Rossall coastal defence.
The new constituency would stretch from Port Isaac bay in Cornwall to Bideford bar, a sandbank in the Taw-Torridge estuary in Devon.
The more aggressive jobs - 30 seconds of screaming about massive discount sales at never-to-be-repeated prices over shots of maniacal couples strewing fivers and tenners over themselves - she leaves to those with estuary vowels and a vocal quality more suggestive of imminent violence.
Soon these lovely birds will quit the hills and head to the estuary below, where flocks of so many species have been decimated in the time I've known it.
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