"sweet bay" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in a variety of contexts to refer to a type of bay with sweet water (such as a bay with a high sugar content) or to refer to a bay with lush, beautiful scenery. For example: "The cove was a sweet bay, with its clear, turquoise waters and bright green foliage."
Even better were sweet bay scallops, served in their shells and balanced by a restrained vinaigrette.
There is a wide variety of plant life on the trail, including bayberry bushes and sweet bay magnolias.
WHY Spring is the perfect time to visit Charleston, as azaleas, dogwoods and sweet bay magnolias bloom throughout April.
Bay tree, any of several small trees with aromatic leaves, especially the sweet bay, or bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), source of the bay leaf used in cooking.
Evergreens such as loquat, fire thorn, sweet bay magnolia, and upright yew, as well as dwarf apple and pear trees, make excellent espaliers.
The evergreen sweet bay (Magnolia virginiana var. australis), has narrow leaves with silvery undersides and fragrant flowers in June and July.
On the slopes rising gently upward from the banks of the stream on both sides of the branch were old longleaf pines and old water oaks and old swamp maples and old sweet gum and old hollies and old magnolias and old sweet bays and old swamp hickories and old black walnuts and old wild persimmons and old wild cherries and old dogwoods.
In the spring and summer, a number of the trees in the branch — sweet bays, for example, and magnolias and tulip poplars — had spectacularly beautiful blossoms, and sometimes I would pick an armful of these blossoms and take them home to my mother and my sisters.
That was especially apparent when we dug into sweet Peconic Bay scallops at a recent meal.
The crab bisque at Ocean Avenue Seafood, 1401 Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica, (310) 394-5669, is delicious, as are the big, sweet Fanny Bay oysters from British Columbia.
