BAY in a Sentence

bay

 n.  inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf; small body of water set off from the main body

1  Through the wide bay window on the lawn she could see the men still lounging in their chairs under the trees and in the shade of the arbor.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI

2  Usually the men returned when they saw that hunger at home would be held at bay for a few months longer.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII

3  As wet June days passed into a wetter July and the Confederates, fighting desperately around the entrenched heights, still held Sherman at bay, a wild gaiety took hold of Atlanta.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

4  He had kept sternly at bay those two enemies of Georgia planters, the seedling pine and the blackberry brambles.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL

5  It's always annoying to the godly when the ungodly flourish like the green bay tree.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

6  There, while Mrs. Gormer plunged into problems of lighting and sanitation, Lily had leisure to wander, in the bright autumn air, along the tree-fringed bay to which the land declined.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6

7  A Sag Harbor ship visited his father's bay, and Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.

8  In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.

9  Thus this mysterious, divine Pacific zones the world's whole bulk about; makes all coasts one bay to it; seems the tide-beating heart of earth.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.

10  As Edna waited for her husband she sang low a little song that Robert had sung as they crossed the bay.

The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIV

11  She could see the glint of the moon upon the bay, and could feel the soft, gusty beating of the hot south wind.

The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XIX

12  Jurgis and his gang joined in the sport, every man singling out his victim, and striving to bring him to bay and punch him.

The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26

13  It was, however, maintained for hours, until they had reached a bay, nigh the northern termination of the lake.

The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20

14  I found, instead of going down, on reaching North Point they went up the bay, in a north-easterly direction.

The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

15  This very bay shall yet bear me into freedom.

The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

1  She sailed the dinghy across the bay.

2  Big waves will never build up in a small bay.

3  We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.

4  My eyes have shallow sea land old clap vita etched a bay miss.

5  In the library, the books on history are all kept in one bay.

6  Tom dreamed of owning an ocean-going yacht but had to settle for a skiff he could sail in the bay.

7  A favorite bay vista is from the point of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.

8  Metro Meteor, a 10-year-old thoroughbred bay in rural Maryland, is enjoying singular success.

9  Aviation experts noted that confidence in the plane was increased by the fact that the fuselage remained largely intact after impact and the fire remained at bay until after many passengers had exited, thanks to engineering design and a flame retardant cabin interior that are standard on modern jets.

10  Somewhere in the streets beyond a dog suddenly howled, baying at the moon.