Use the word bay in a sentence

Definition of Bay

an inlet by the sea where the land curves inward

Examples of Bay in a sentence

Otis Redding was sitting on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away.

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A bay is smaller and more enclosed than a gulf, but the mouth where It meets the ocean is wider.

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Forming the Bay of Bengal, tectonic plates caused water to partially surround the land and create the world’s largest inlet.

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We sat on top of a cliff at the bay, overlooking where the ocean meets the coastline.

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No one was swimming at the bay, but they were crabbing off of the dock and paddle boarding close to shore.

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Also there are various electronic devices such as Yard Guard (Arbico) that really work! Another helpful tool is your dog or cat since they can keep many animals at bay


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The ‘starship’ that came down in the Yakhan, you could roll this thing onto the freight elevator that comes down out of its cargo bay, and that isn’t really the starship


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They could only assume that the people Herndon was opposed to were hauling the crate into the shuttle cargo bay


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cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay


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Once Hardway’s battlegroup and convoy had finally rendezvoused with Admiral Ming’s combined fleet over the debris field that had been an alien task force only hours ago, the Air Group Commander called the Lancers to Bay 23 in full flight gear


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«Damn redsuits out there are portaging the last of our Bitzers out of the bay and ignoring me,» he growled


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» Zoomed in on the open bay with their helmets they could see that the bulge in the smooth hull offset to the starboard side was a housing for a ship-killer of some kind, probably a warspite torpedo


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He hoped they’d stopped blaming him once they saw her up and around, but the Chief had been in Ibora’s medical bay since coming aboard and the Doc wouldn’t let anyone in there to see her


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I put my face in my hands and take a deep breath, trying to keep the tears at bay


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Herndon could still remember the construction of the Presidente Lula in low orbit above the Sao Luis Megalopolis, then a sprawling collection of seventeen million in balconied skyscrapers overlooking yacht basins all around the bay, the whole peninsula nothing but skyscrapers along the reconstituted beaches, or industrial plant in the interior

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If she was Brazilian, the cock of her head and lift of her eyebrow would put her birth about 1000′ above Guanabara bay on a steep hillcrest with two armed men outside her door


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This was the last wide bay on Center Lake, wide enough so the far shore was detectable only as Kortrax began to contact the horizon and those with sharp eyes could see that sun and reflection didn’t quite meet


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By repeating his name, by bouncing the echo of his voice off the cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay the constriction, the weight of fear that otherwise would have crushed him


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Who do you think kept the dinosaurs at bay? They protected us and cared for us


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on the soft side of the bay


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’ I said, the sweep of my arm taking in the bay with its beaches and cliffs


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‘In that case, if we could get Drens to bring the boat into that bay there …’ he points to an indentation in the coastline near Ciutadella


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’ Drens had said, pointing to the bay where he intends to land us


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The FORWARD BEND is one of the Yoga exercises which helps to keep old age at bay


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After shaking hands and getting permission to leave my stuff in the bar, I moved off round the bay towards the distant beach

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But down around the port, came a more thriving version of life in shiny, tiled kitchens, and white lace curtains flapping a gentle hint of an incoming breeze that would help to keep the flies at bay


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She’d had one cup a little while ago and there was still a touch from it, with enough concentration she could keep the dimness at bay and actually enjoy the wonderful scene


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There seemed to be a cafe near some rocks at the far end of the bay so with that as my turning point and the town some way behind me now, I staggered along the tide line


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pausing to keep the spin of the world at bay,


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Even as we cut engines and drifted around the headland and into the bay of Diafani, it was clear this was no tourist centre


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‘Whereas this fellow of mine is a bay


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‘I assume you want to use that bay of yours, Berndt


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I look across at him, this man mounted on his beautiful bay which, if it were going flat out would probably achieve thirty or possible thirty five miles an hour


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The bay at Dorini served the needs of the people who had to go to Faria to tend their goats, to worship or to establish trade with nearby islands or down to Stephanos main town in the south long before the road was built


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This bay is least exposed to wind and high waves, and is the closest natural harbour to both Sophia and Faria

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The shop was in a yard overlooking the bay and covering its low walls hung every type of linen designed for every household need


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No one lives there now but some say there was once an established city called something like Nissyros in the little bay of Palatia,’ his eyes blazed with enthusiasm


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The manor house was beautifully appointed, inside and out, sporting a novelty coat of arms above the door and a beautiful wisteria that twisted and flowered around the porch and around the front bay windows


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Then Alessandra surfaced in the bay with a loud splash and we were glad to see each other, but there was still no sign of our Alexis


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Its three black masts dominated the bay of Dorini like primed Harpoon missiles locked onto a delicate conservation sanctuary


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Behind Dorini stood the mountain and a little further to the right lay the plateaux above the bay, and below them, Faria beach


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Nikos would drop us off at the bay of Palatia then go back and organise the other two fishing boats to ferry up the volunteers in the morning


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Each time I stopped for a drink, I did my best to be casual and filled my mind with all sorts of loopy trivia to try to keep my nerves at bay


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He quickly excused himself and headed for the Bay area where a hovercraft was waiting for him


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Alexei headed for the docking bay and suited up, he placed the camera on his helmet

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It was actually two rooms, the outer one a bit smaller, the inner one with a bay window behind him overlooking a scene of Bantu laborers toiling in the fields


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Naria looked about the large bay, singled out one of the crew, sashayed up to the Ensign, and had a few words with him


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They left the Bay area with Alexei and Altera following


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The road winds along the edge of the cliffs, following the contours of the bays, with fantastic views of the towns nestling along the coast and across the bay towards Ischia


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Emanuele told me that the best time to be here is early May before the heat haze gets going — that’s when you get the best views across the bay


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Tyu had been placed in the largest Bay, an area reserved for the largest of the runabouts


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By now the entire Bay was curious as to what was going on


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Together they produced a soothing sound, almost hypnotic, echoing throughout the entire Bay area


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The main road goes through Sorrento and then winds up towards the ‘nose’ of the peninsula before turning back on itself, leaving the Bay of Naples, and heading south for the Amalfi coast


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There are two large bedrooms both with shuttered windows – one looking towards the sea and the other inland; a small third room off the main hall which would make a very good office; a large lounge dining room with views across the bay, a square kitchen and a bathroom with nice solid mod cons

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When they arrived on the Saber, Altera was waiting on the docking bay with two of her guards


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On a routine spy mission to their home planet, she asked for a set of plans from the starship bay to be copied


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“Sir,” the young boy called out of breath, pointing out to sea, “there is a ship approaching the entrance to the bay, it appears to be the Halestrom!”


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There was a great bay before them, at least four miles wide, surrounded by thousand foot cliffs all along the far side


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In the bay was a ring of lower islands, but in the center of that was a smaller bay, nearly a mile wide, and in the center of that, yet another island


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The palace she saw at Knossos was a country cottage compared to the city that covered the islands in this great bay


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She looked at things across the bay and noticed a little of that negative curvature effect


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It keeps prying eyes at bay, but not prying ears


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The bird disappeared behind the slight headland to one side of the bay


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The seat was her main room cushion in the bay window at the garden end of the house

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In the next bay the nurses and doctor attending Bex are considering other options


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He catches a glimpse of someone peering in through the bay window


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She didn’t need to search the house; she went from their room to the bay window and looked out


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She is in shock, working as quickly as she can to keep the starkly brutal images of Leona and Bex at bay


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him and took a few steps back, thinking of running, but holding the urge at bay


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The curtains in the bay window are closed but the tell-tale haze of passive entertainment sparks through the cracks


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Across the arm of the little bay, walking under parasols, came strolling Kaitlyn and Mrs


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I address myself to the soup again, swallowing is helpful and diverts my mind … keeps those tears at bay too


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Chloe pointed excitedly out towards the sea, “Ooh, look!” There through the late mists rising from the bay, rose what appeared to be the turrets and spires of a fairy tale castle


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A little winded and with a well earned hunger, they assembled in a cafe opposite the little hotel, and looked back over the bay to the mainland

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The Bessamers met their guests at the ferry station and took the long way home, offering the ladies a brief tour of the City by the Bay and its admirable points of interest


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It was dark and only the dimmest of light was being expelled from the large bay window, to their left


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Sue went back into the electronics and equipment bay


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In order to keep the demons at bay


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“We have all the hardware out of the electronic and equipment bay and have removed the oxygen tank


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Bog Walk is a tropical watershed forest, and another attraction is Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge


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Impossible! he fumed, as the staff of charred wood continued to hold his twirling weapon at bay


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Emily remembered where Brice had found Tetloan, his family ruled in the mountain city of Argor where a barrier of white walls and cliffs kept invaders at bay


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In the days of the island this had been the outskirts of the city of Hyadrain that encircled the bay of the same name, and this factory had been deep in a back canyon that lead back into the slope of the then uninhabited Rankor Hill


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And she has a mouth as big as Galway Bay,

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A then she would live and die on Galway bay,


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It didn’t do anything for his stutter but a cold coming on was certainly held at bay


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Though she longed to near him, the hate in his eyes kept her at bay


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Open the pod bay doors HAL:


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I herded them together, and led them back to our camp on the bay


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Past the breakers, the bay was calm


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It was near the northern tip of Polis Bay


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and yours – at bay


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Heart quaking at the thunderous noise pursuing her, she reached the bay


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They knew that a fierce countenance kept most people at bay

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Denalin touched a few of the buttons and the main viewer sprang from the morphing star field to a real-time view of their own hangar bay below


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“Lorien, Lúthien, you are cleared to launch,” the Elf announced to a waiting pair of crews in the hangar bay


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It was a former life shattered by things they knew were never far away really, but tried with all of their might to keep at bay


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Ahead of her was a brighter bay, perhaps one of the ‘work rooms,’ she suspected


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Several swaggering Naud taskmasters roved through the huge bay


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The invisible Huntress backed away from the little cluster of ships and once beyond the Naud’s limited scanning range, reeled them the rest of the way into the reception bay


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‘ Husim and his bridge crew were staring directly in front of their ship’s bridge at the actual form of the Elf standing with her attendants in the opening of her loading bay that looked to them like a narrowly illumined dais—floating in front of their eyes without an attendant ship! And not thirty yards from where he stood on his own bridge!


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of the land sometimes helped keep homesickness at bay


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Isin confidently said, “And between the empty hangar bay and our own storage bays—off-loaded temporarily—the Huntress can accommodate over two hundred with ease


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The expense of the civil establishment of Massachusetts Bay, before the commencement of the present disturbances, used to be but about £18;000 a-year ; that of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, £3500 each; that of Connecticut, £4000; that of New York and Pennsylvania, £4500 each; that of New Jersey, £1200; that of Virginia and South Carolina, £8000 each

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The crowd bayed for blood as Raven, sitting in the changing room backstage, wrapped cloth tightly around his knuckles


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Grindel gazed out over the crowd as they bayed for the death of their Healer and her accomplices


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Out in the trees a wolf bayed at the moon


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They had a big ol� hawg bayed


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As that wild yell rose above the clamor, there was an instant’s lull, and then a hundred throats bayed ferocious answer and warriors came leaping to repel the attack presaged by the warning


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Seven skittish, barking dogs bayed hysterically in the darkness at the base of the stack, eager to get at the passengers trapped inside


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Some wolves bayed at an imaginary full


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I just simply stood pale, silent, bayed about


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I felt like Lear on the heath, like the Duchess of Malfi bayed by madmen


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Those desires and ambitions toward which he had bayed across the world like a scenting hound, were shabby things now he looked inward at himself

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«When in the breeze the distant watch-dog bayed,» I was about to say; but Polly, who is at Greenside with me, calls, «Just hear the mosquitoes


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suckling at pups, standing at the edge of the world baying for the return of her great


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dared to contemplate creation, baying at the stars, calling out in utter desperation for


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She saw there not the girl, but the she-wolf, the alpha female, in her prime, maned and dripping blood from the kill, suckling at pups, standing at the edge of the world baying for the return of her great lunar matriarch


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He looked down upon the bright and savage earth for the first time in countless measures of eternity and there Smith saw something quite unexpected; the utterly familiar shape of loneliness embodied in the outlandish shell of the hairless ape who dared to contemplate creation, baying at the stars, calling out in utter desperation for the companionship that comes with that first sparkling moment of harmony within the song of songs


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a deer caught in the baying convergence of dogs and coats


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when the baying turns to the growl


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With their respective lawyers flexing their considerable egos and with the press pack baying like wolves, Burberry hopped onto the next transatlantic red-eye


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with the press pack baying like wolves, Burberry hopped onto the


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He is chilled to the bone, but not by the baying of the press-pack intrusion


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She remembers the baying of the slaughtered in the barn

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the distant baying of wolves


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The baying hounds of the networks leapt into action, the quickest turn around in the history of the recorded word came about and the day dawned bright in Moscow when the Politburo met


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They were surrounded by a multitude of baying enemies, forced to stand their ground, bunched tightly together, waiting for the final onslaught


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in circles at the sound of the baying hound


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Far away, Virginia thought she heard the baying of a hunting hound


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Calum Warner had prepared his speech to the baying press outside


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Yet the ferals’ evil baying and cackling eventually overpower the muffled cries for help, until only the predators’ calls dominate the metropolis


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The howling, wild sound of them is no barrier, his mind is protected against their baying


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For a moment, the sound of his voice almost holds back the baying of the dogs


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Not simply the overpowering sound of pack dogs that makes the ear tingle when they’re on the hunt, but something meaner and more insistent, a baying that plunders the mind

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A moment more and the pack was upon him, their hot stale breath scorching his skin, their teeth tearing at clothes and hair, and their mouths baying for blood


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And from the cloud came a wild baying


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his way past the baying traffic


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across the road, once again dodging the baying traffic, over to


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Out of the tinted windows, he saw a baying crowd of


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The Captain stopped, and just smiled as the baying beast lunged at his throat


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but to the baying bloodhounds fast approaching


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fast approaching contained bloodhounds that were baying


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Bloodhounds, who I could hear baying could smell through the


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converged upon the area and worse yet, I heard the baying of

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She could definitely see the individual souls in the Sluagh now, milling around, screaming in pain, baying for fresh tormented souls to join them


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Above their baying, he could hear cheering from two cages along, the cage


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The clowns started baying for blood


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At one point, they had heard distant baying


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Mikhail was baying for blood


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I had a product and there were no buyers because everyone was baying


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Pursued by the angry mob, some reports said hundreds chased him, baying for blood at


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Found in a heap at the base of the tree by the baying crowd, it is said a hush


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the cannons, she heard the screams of the dying, the baying of


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Suddenly, a black reptile or some entity, which seemed like a Chimera of the ancient Greek, crept out of a crevice making cold baying sounds

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The duchess came out splendidly attired, and Don Quixote, in pure courtesy and politeness, held the rein of her palfrey, though the duke wanted not to allow him; and at last they reached a wood that lay between two high mountains, where, after occupying various posts, ambushes, and paths, and distributing the party in different positions, the hunt began with great noise, shouting, and hallooing, so that, between the baying of the hounds and the blowing of the horns, they could not hear one another


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A pack of bloodhounds, led by Hornblower of Trinity brandishing a dogwhip in tallyho cap and an old pair of grey trousers, follow from fir, picking up the scent, nearer, baying, panting, at fault, breaking away, throwing their tongues, biting his heels, leaping at his tail


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When Philippe’ s army left Amiens, and started advancing from the south, Edward found himself trapped in the point of a triangle: on his right the estuary, on his left the sea, and behind him the French army, baying for the blood of the barbaric invaders


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Two heard music and baying dogs


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On land nothing was to be heard except the deep baying of the mastiffs at the railway yards, answered by the faint barking of the curs infesting the outer limits of the town


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At the end of half an hour he lifted his head to the deep baying of the dogs at the railway yards, which had burst out suddenly, tumultuous and deadened as if coming from under the plain


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A moment longer the silence held, and then it tore apart under the weight of five hundred fierce, baying voices


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He never heard the fierce, savage baying of the Dohlaran crew as it swarmed across the wreckage and onto his ship’s deck


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I was still sitting on a flight case listening to the baying of the Byron Bay crowd as the DJ put on some music to signal the changeover


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They were still standing over him, cursing their ill luck, and Bombur’s clumsiness, and lamenting the loss of the boat which made it impossible for them to go back and look for the hart, when they became aware of the dim blowing of horns in the wood and the sound as of dogs baying far off

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Suddenly as they drew nearer a terrific baying and barking broke out, and a loud voice was heard shouting: ‘Grip! Fang! Wolf! Come on, lads!’


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There was a hoot of snarling horns and a babel of baying voices


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Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note


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They alone, in the infiltering night, heard the far-off baying of dismays and despairs that cast a spell


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I did; whereupon began a heaving, stamping, clattering process, accompanied by a barking and baying which removed me effectually some yards’ distance; but I would not be driven quite away till I saw the event


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From the rocks near the Hopkins Marine Station comes the barking of sea lions like the baying of hounds


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Male and female voices had been one tone, but now in the middle of a response one woman’s voice went up and up in a wailing cry, wild and fierce, like the cry of a beast; and a deeper woman’s voice rose up beside it, a baying voice, and a man’s voice traveled up the scale in the howl of a wolf


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Where’s the use of baying at the moon? You go away


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dipping into bays and harbour walls


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No sandy beaches just small pebbled bays providing a clear sea and I could see no bars or tavernas on any of the beaches


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The road winds along the edge of the cliffs, following the contours of the bays, with fantastic views of the towns nestling along the coast and across the bay towards Ischia


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Both vehicles push hard through the traffic lights and up the hill towards the hospital where they swing round and reverse into the emergency bays by the entrance to Accident and Emergency


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A slight breeze hustles old crisp packets into the corners of vacant parking bays and there is enough of a chill in the air to make skin creep with goose bumps


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The Elysian had shuttle bays, if they could be called that, on both sides


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It ran the entire length of the mid-section and branches led off to all parts of the cavities between the cargo bays and the top of the hull


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time, the Milo would lay anchor in one of the many bays along the coast of Baja California, and enjoy the rest and quiet


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It can’t really be developed in the way the larger bays can but what has been done has been done tastefully and to a high standard


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It was wondrous beautiful with spires, bays, columns and tall arched windows and doors in several stories

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exceptionally picturesque landscape of the city of Hobart and its surroundings: an irregular coast of bays, inlets and peninsulas


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All of the Great Lakes, adjoining bays and major ports were studied


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The ports of Duluth and Superior presented serious ice problems due to rivers and bays that force 27-inch-thick ice into the harbors


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«But our bays are shutdown pending further investigation of the Harbinger attack and any ships coming to dock are considered a security risk by definition


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Far north Scotland is bleak, treeless and mildly hilly, and the east coast road provides pretty sea views, bays and bridges


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A golden flash of color appeared for an instant behind the dark bays of his eyes


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«We are going to,» before Slinks said anything else, twelve grey and red buses floated past them like a steam train and they quickly lined up into the correct bays


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From the summit of the hill they had views of the sea, glimpses of blue bays dotted with surfies, and, through a gap in the hills, a vista of apartments on Main Beach


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He drove to the promenade and parked up in one of the short term bays that overlooked the beach


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The oars were for use in tacking out of creeks and bays, and during calms

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Inlets, beaches, islands, sandbars, bays and various shipping lanes had been probed and explored scores of times


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The manufacturer left a data port where they could take over control of the ship when it arrived back at their service bays for overhaul


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“Race YA!” Wendy propelled herself through the passageway that lead to the cargo bays


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In preparation for this portion of the attack, the settlers had stretched razor wire across the bays and rivers


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He flicked it on and two neon strip lights lit up the first of the four bays of the garage


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They showed up a week later with some missiles which they loaded into the missile bays


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“Why were they putting missiles into the bays when they were supposed to be taking the ships apart? I asked the computer for its opinion, and it alerted me to the fact that the missiles were nukes


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When she left the station exit and saw the car park she was immediately confronted with the sight of the disabled parking bays directly in front of the station


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There were dozens of puck marks of various sizes in the tarmac in the bays


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Then I deliberately parked in a high profile space, one of the disabled bays right in front of the entrance

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They still had a few hours to missile range but suddenly the approaching cruiser, which had been becoming more and more distinct on their sensors, blossomed and eight fighter interceptors popped out of launch bays


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Immediately forward of the drive units the space frame consists of four large trusses providing separation between the propulsion unit and the aft end of the cargo bays from the old cargo ship


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She had deployed medical and damage control teams to one of the weapons bays to deal with


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The majority of the damage to the ship except for the destruction of one of the forward missile bays was superficial and quickly repaired


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The cameras transmitted back to recorders in the ships’ storage bays


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provided for the teens and enough supplies to last them a year were loaded into the cargo modules attached to the ship’s cargo bays


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It also has hangars and launching bays for dozens of attack craft and interceptors


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They sailed all over Sydney Harbour, exploring every nook and cranny, often sailing onto one of the deserted little beaches that dot the many bays and inlets


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Murray settled down on the back seat and studied the registration numbers of the vehicles as they came and went from the car park, it was just before noon when a Nissan Patrol with the registration Murray was looking for came rolling down the ramp and parked two bays away from the lift door, Mr Hawk stepped from the car and gave a casual glance around the car park, at least it would have looked like a casual glance to an onlooker but Murray knew better, Mr Hawk had scanned the whole car park looking for a threat, he had counted and evaluated every car in the car park, finding nothing untoward he then walked to the lift door and disappeared from Murray’s view, Murray stayed were he was without moving and sure enough two minutes later Mr Hawk stuck his head around the lift door and studied the car park again, checking that nothing had changed, he was behaving exactly as a professional should, as Murray would behave if the roles were reversed, although Mr Hawk would never recognise the fact he had placed himself at a slight mental disadvantage, Mr Hawk’s first impression of Mr Jay had been less than flattering, in fact he thought Mr Jay was a bit of a dork, a clever dork but never the less a dork, not a professional like himself just someone who played around with safe’s and lock’s, this was exactly the impression Murray had set out to promote, even though Murray had outsmarted him, Mr Hawk’s subconscious had still not discarded this first impression that Mr Jay was a gifted amateur, the prison sentence for receiving a measly amount of jewellery reinforced this opinion, this gave Murray a huge advantage


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They spent all their days in the sheltering bays of Noosa, surfing, swimming and lying around in the shade of the Pandanus palms

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There was not a breath of wind and there were still patches of lingering fog in the shaded, deeper parts of the bays


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The memory of that feeling stayed with him for the rest of his days and he felt it every time he entered the water of those beautiful bays


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� Fragments cracked some of the armored glass bays of the bridge and swept both cannon servants


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� By now, Colonel Winters, commander of Force Five, had given her by radio a detailed report of his situation: he was pinned down along the docks and the submarine launching bays of the yard by a large German infantry force positioned within the unfinished submarine hulls and construction equipment


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“See the bays with the steel mesh around them; those cars also belong to the Duke


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That tour left many of the guests in awe on seeing things like the disco hall, the two pools, the two helicopter pads, the many hot tubs and the mini-submarine in one of the boat bays


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Its needle-like nose was flanked by two huge rectangular engine air inlets and connected to a long, wide fuselage that contained both the two huge TF-58R combination turbofan/ramjet engines and the multiple internal weapons bays of the aircraft, plus voluminous internal fuel tanks


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The weapons bays would not house any armament for the moment, being used instead to accommodate over a ton of flight test instrumentation


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Pushing a few select buttons, she made two COBRA B air-to-air missile deploy from their belly internal bays


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Fruit trees and bushes were planted at intervals along the outer side of the promenade, which was lined with large, thick armorglass bays showing the nearby Ares space terminal and the surface of Mars below

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He bays at the moon,


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Under the incredulous eyes of the reporters and other visitors, the doors of eight weapons bays opened under the belly of Gardner’s plane and an intimidating assortment of bombs and missiles appeared, extending out on their weapons pylons while four retractable rocket pods extended out from under the wings


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The technicians hurried to prepare her F-83 for takeoff and to take out the safeties from the six big bombs and four air-to-air missiles hooked inside her bomb and missile bays


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The latter selected for their second pass their eight incendiary bombs, each containing 380 liters of napalm and hooked inside the internal weapons bays of the F-83


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Angel pulled the car into one of the many parking bays


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the last of the crazy orders, as soon as we come out of warp, I want all torpedo bays to start launching class one probes at will, as fast as possible and as many as possible


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«Load all torpedo bays


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Load all torpedo bays, and warm up the phaser banks


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There’s lots that needs to be done to bring her up to modern standards…Like retrofitting the cargo bays to accommodate the new tie-down systems; and some repairs to catwalks here and there


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fighters tucked away in their docking bays, ready to be launched at any time

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Waves of motions curled in pockets as presences ebbed and flowed against the block long truck bays


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These bays are referred to as the Aransas Bay System


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Curled waves swirl into bays


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Curling up the cays and bays,


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About the sick bays


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inside one of the mechanic bays


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Thrashing and pounding on the walls, he growls and bays as though he is calling for help in his new tongue


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Instead, she ran into the barn, grabbed a fire extinguisher from beside one of the bays and entered it, spraying ahead as she went


69.
The shining Bodden with its bays and little islands lay beneath us, to the north was the sea, to the west the sea, to the east, right away on the other side of distant Rügen, the sea; far in the south rose the towers of Stralsund; close behind us a forest of young pines filled the air with warm waves of fragrance; at our feet the turf was thick with flowers,—oh, wide and splendid world! How good it is to look sometimes across great spaces, to lift one’s eyes from narrowness, to feel the large silence that rests on lonely hills! Motionless we stood before this sudden unrolling of the beauty of God’s earth


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bays and lagoons (FishBase)

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toward the bay»s exit


72.
We sail into one of the bays


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We will scour the nearby beaches and bays of Prince William Sound, searching for a black bear


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granite headlands that isolate the 23 bays


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Artonian plants with the help of the ones that were going to Mars to fil the cargo bays of the Arton Three


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The smaller ofthese bays is more


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These bays are referred to as the Aransas Bay


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“Through there is one of many holding bays where guests can leave their Kyboes,”


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“Down to the parking bays,” Towler said, “I thought it a bit strange at first


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as I wheeled him into the Casualty Dept and parked him in one of the trolley bays

81.
Bays and channels and ships sailing in and out are ours—while we over all, Over the area spread below, the three or four millions of square


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City nested in bays! my city!


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To the north stretched the limpid, and, as it appeared from that dizzy height, the narrow sheet of the «holy lake,» indented with numberless bays, embellished by fantastic headlands, and dotted with countless islands


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Still it bays, but the sound is changing


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» He went down to the stables, not without some slight annoyance, when he remembered that the Count of Monte Cristo had laid his hands on a «turnout» which sent his bays down to second place in the opinion of connoisseurs


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Lady Sylvester Elmshade, Mrs Barbara Lovebirch, Mrs Poll Ash, Mrs Holly Hazeleyes, Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence


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The east end of the church was divided by pillars into four sections, called bays


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The collapse had affected the two bays nearest the crossing


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(He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously


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shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon

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The tower appeared to stand neatly on the four sides of the crossing, and to be exactly two bays square, even though in fact its weight was held up by massive buttresses built into the exterior corners of the transepts, which themselves rested on new foundations separate from the old original ones


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Spell-bound and quivering with excitement, the Water Rat followed the Adventurer league by league, over stormy bays, through crowded roadsteads, across harbour bars on a racing tide, up winding rivers that hid their busy little towns round a sudden turn; and left him with a regretful sigh planted at his dull inland farm, about which he desired to hear nothing


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The other nearer to the south end, where the hall broke up into bays and runs with columns of earth between


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Criminologists wearing lab coats worked in their bays, which were equipped with the best forensic tools in the world


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“There are a lot of potential targets around Shwei Bay—around both Shwei Bays,” Hamptyn said


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One day we went down to the cellars with Wilcox and saw the empty bays which had once held a vast store of wine; one transept only was used now; there the bins were well stocked, some of with vintages fifty years old


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It was a long, elaborate, symmetrical Adam room, with two bays of windows opening into Green Park


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When she drove by, behind a fine pair of herself presented a prosperous appearance when glimpsed occasionally in her closed bays, all the little boys along the street who could evade their mothers ran to peer at her and whisper excitedly: “That’s her! That’s ole Belle! I seen her red hair!”


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In the bays of the carwash just before the subdivision entrance, two sponges whirl like dingy sheepdogs, their dreadlocks reaching out for a car that is not there


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This is deeper water than the previous three books I have mentioned, but the reader will be repaid for his effort to navigate in and out of its many historical bays and inlets

Synonym: Laurus nobilis, alcove, bay laurel, bay tree, embayment, quest, true laurel. Similar words: baby, bad, ban, bar, bat, boy, buy, by. Meaning: [beɪ]  n. 1. an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf 2. the sound of a hound on the scent 3. small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors 4. a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital 5. a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose 6. a small recess opening off a larger room 7. a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color. v. 1. utter in deep prolonged tones 2. bark with prolonged noises, of dogs. adj. (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color. 

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1. The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors.

2. The ship cast anchor in the bay.

3. She sailed the dinghy across the bay.

4. The bay glittered in the sunshine.

5. The animals are herded into a bay, then butchered.

6. An unspoilt coral reef encloses the bay.

7. A thick wall keeps the noise at bay.

8. A section of the Bay Bridge had collapsed.

9. They built a barrage across the bay.

10. We sailed into a beautiful, secluded bay.

11. Put the equipment in No 3 bay.

12. The room had a great bay window.

13. The moon is raying across the bay.

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

15. The lion was at bay.

16. The length of the bay is approximately 200 miles.

17. The bay was full of yachts with billowing sails.

18. They dredge the bay for gravel.

19. Lights twinkled across the bay.

20. Flavour the stock with bay leaves.

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21. The land juts out into the bay.

22. The lion stood at bay.

23. They have brought the escaped convict to bay.

24. He fought bravely, holding his enemies at bay.

25. Hotel Miramar is situated high above the bay.

26. The road curved around the bay.

27. He cast off, heading out to the bay.

28. The car reversed into the loading bay.

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

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

More similar words: baby, bad, ban, bar, bat, boy, buy, by, day, gay, hay, may, pay, say, way, badly, bake, ball, band, bare, barn, base, be, beam, bean, beg, bet, bias, bid, big. 

Bay sentence example. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use bay in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for bay.

  • He turns to the bay window. (8)
  • That she was hunted, and must stand at bay! (10)
  • She jumped up and stood at bay. (10)
  • It was a treat to be on that bay mare. (8)
  • Her attitude was that of a cat at bay. (12)
  • And, with a vicious shrug, he stood at bay. (8)
  • Then she turns quickly into the bay window. (8)
  • Is there not a moment when it stands at bay? (10)
  • A bay in which he anchored Cartier called Baie des Chaleurs. (19)
  • He goes to the bay window and looks out; then rings the bell. (8)
  • And, as Soames retired, he resumed his seat in the bay window. (8)
  • The South-west left it in its bay of blue, and breathed below. (10)
  • She wrinkled her forehead like one who was helpless and at bay. (12)
  • On one side is a bay window, over which curtains are partly drawn. (8)
  • On the 1st June 1755 the English war-party arrived in Chignecto Bay. (19)
  • Suddenly she springs to her feet, and stands waiting like an animal at bay. (8)
  • George Forsyte, of course, would be sitting in the bay window of the Iseeum. (8)
  • She suddenly runs and wraps herself into one of the curtains of the bay window. (8)
  • Hurrying across the room he had the absurd feeling that she was standing at bay. (8)
  • The Sphinx mouth of the married woman at war and at bay must be left unriddled. (10)
  • Fort Albany was built in a sheltered inlet forty yards from the borders of the Bay. (19)
  • But there was one stronghold in the northern bay which continued to defy the French. (19)
  • Chancing to look up she saw Monsieur Profond with a tall stout man in the bay window. (8)
  • She rattled off small-talk, as, aglow with her buoyant spirits, she rode her prancing bay. (18)
  • Beyond laughed and danced the fresh blue water of the bay, dotted with sails and smokestacks. (9)
  • She alone remains standing leaning against the corner of the bay window, watching their faces.] (8)
  • They took up settlements in the meadows of the Bay of Fundy and at Port Rasoir in Nova Scotia. (19)
  • She had not known while bearing him her present acute sensation of the hunted flying and at bay. (10)
  • There were seven lines of the glory looking like the breaking of quiet surf on the beach of a bay. (14)
  • During the morning, in a room overlooking Haverstraw Bay, Andre and Arnold secretly concluded the plans. (18)
  • She got a little back of the others, and sat looking wistfully out over the bay, with her hands in her lap. (9)
  • There should have been an iron ladder between every two tiers of bay windows on this side of the building. (13)
  • The cattle, dappled, pied, or bay, or white, continued grazing with an air of grumbling at their birthright. (8)
  • Obediently they set him down on the table which has been forced into the bay window, and stand gaping up at him. (8)
  • The bay we had crossed in the twilight was an ancient mouth of the river, not navigable within the memory of man. (20)
  • He penetrated the wilderness in spite of every obstacle, and established a mission at Thonatiria, on Georgian Bay. (19)
  • He attacked, and for months the red-men were kept at bay until succour could come to the heroic Gladwin and his men. (19)
  • The two first-named vessels were no strangers to the Bay, and had participated in the conquest of the previous year. (19)
  • Amongst these carriages was a barouche coming at a greater pace than the others, drawn by a pair of bright bay horses. (8)
  • Hart found Graves in his inner office, while a clerk held at bay a roomful of men who wanted to get at the contractor. (13)
  • One had caught on the sloping roof of a line of bay windows, and clung there desperately seven stories above the ground. (13)
  • Now General Clinton turned toward the bay and there beheld events transpiring that turned the temper of his conversation. (18)
  • From time to time she looked up from this labor, and scanned the beautiful bay, which they had almost wholly to themselves. (9)
  • Then, as full realization begins to dawn on him, he runs to the bay window, craning his head to catch sight of the front door. (8)
  • Right down she went, full tilt, and after her went Lennan, lying back, and expecting the bay mare to come down at every stride. (8)
  • He brought his tea across to my bay window, with that wistful sociability of his, as of a man who cannot always find a listener. (8)
  • After looking out on to the terrace she goes to the bay window; stands there listening; then comes restlessly back into the room. (8)
  • He joined his cousin, therefore, in the bay window without the embarrassing sense of indiscretion he had been used to feel up there. (8)
  • The gallant Chevalier and his associates would have been glad to have pursued their successes by crossing the Bay and capturing York Factory. (19)
  • They had now all retired from the sea, and, having survived its manifold perils, were patiently waiting to be drowned in sail-boats on the bay. (9)

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noun

a body of water forming an indentation of the shoreline, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.

South Atlantic States. an arm of a swamp.

a recess of land, partly surrounded by hills.

an arm of a prairie or swamp, extending into woods and partly surrounded by them.

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Origin of bay

1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English bai, baye, from Middle French baie, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bāia; further origin uncertain; perhaps by back formation from Latin Bāiae, name of a spa on the Bay of Naples; perhaps of Iberian or Celtic origin

Words nearby bay

bawn, bawneen, Bax, B-axis, Baxter, bay, baya, bayadere, Bayamo, Bayamón, bay antler

Other definitions for bay (2 of 5)


noun

Architecture.

  1. any of a number of similar major vertical divisions of a large interior, wall, etc.: The nave is divided into six bays.
  2. a division of a window between a mullion and an adjoining mullion or jamb.
  3. bay window (def. 1).

Aeronautics.

  1. any portion of an airplane set off by two successive bulkheads or other bracing members.
  2. a compartment in an aircraft: a bomb bay; an engine bay.

a compartment, as in a barn for storing hay.

Also called drive bay .Computers. an open compartment in the console housing a computer’s CPU in which a disk drive, tape drive, etc., may be installed.

Nautical.

  1. the deck space between the anchor windlass and the stem of a vessel.
  2. sick bay.

Origin of bay

2

First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English, from Middle French baée “an opening in a wall,” noun use of feminine past participle of baer “to stand open, gape,” from unattested Vulgar Latin batāre “to yawn, gape”

Other definitions for bay (3 of 5)


noun

a deep, prolonged howl, as of a hound on the scent.

the position or stand of an animal or fugitive that is forced to turn and resist pursuers because it is no longer possible to flee (usually preceded by at or to): a stag at bay; to bring an escaped convict to bay.

the situation of a person or thing that is forced actively to oppose or to succumb to some adverse condition (usually preceded by at or to).

the situation of being actively opposed by an animal, person, etc., so as to be powerless to act fully (often preceded by at).

verb (used without object)

to howl, especially with a deep, prolonged sound, as a hound on the scent.

verb (used with object)

to assail with deep, prolonged howling: a troubled hound baying the moon.

to bring to or to hold at bay: A dog bays its quarry.

Origin of bay

3

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English, shortening of abai, abay, from Anglo-French, dialectal Old French abai “barking,” derivative of abaier “to bark,” of imitative origin

Other definitions for bay (4 of 5)


noun

Also called bayberry, bay rum tree . a tropical American shrub, Pimenta racemosa, having aromatic leaves that are used in making bay oil and bay rum.

any of various laurellike trees or shrubs.

any of several magnolias.

an honorary garland or crown bestowed for military victory, literary excellence, etc.

bays, Literary. fame; renown: Tennyson had fairly won his bays.

Origin of bay

4

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English bai(e), Old English beg- (in begbēam “a tree that bears berries”), conflated with Middle French baie, from Latin bāca, bacca “berry”

Other definitions for bay (5 of 5)


noun

reddish brown.

a horse or other animal of reddish-brown color.

adjective

(of horses or other animals) having a reddish-brown body.

Origin of bay

5

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English, from Middle French bai, from Latin badius “bay, chestnut, chestnut brown”; akin only to Old Irish buide “yellow”

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Words related to bay

anchorage, arm, basin, bayou, bight, cove, estuary, fiord, firth, gulf, harbor, inlet, lagoon, loch, mouth, narrows, sound, strait, compartment, niche

How to use bay in a sentence

  • Even as IT firms bring back between 10% and 30% of their workforce, it might be a while before their campuses go back to full capacity with buzzing cafeterias and noisy bays.

  • When performing medical exams, astronauts won’t have the starship Enterprise’s sick bay at their disposal.

  • These cells normally keep clots at bay so that blood can flow smoothly.

  • The mucus marvels rise out of the heads of four species of spineless, roughly tadpole-shaped giant larvaceans living in the twilight depths of the bay.

  • Kelp forests were on average 20 times larger in areas where sea otters have lived for decades on Vancouver Island, compared with bays where the otters were absent, Watson and her colleagues found.

  • As part of the MassEquality coalition, Marc Solomon, a former Senate aide, was working to get Bay State legislators to vote no.

  • The Tampa Bay Times got their hands on a full copy of the letter the retired judge sent to Winston.

  • Rising up from scooping bay, the steep topography—hemmed by hills of evergreens—promises panoramas at practically every turn.

  • Perhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.

  • The proceedings expected this week in Guantanamo Bay had been canceled.

  • First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.

  • These have canted bay windows below them, and their pediments are surmounted by figures representing Mercury and Athæne.

  • Three men were sentenced to grow potatoes at Botany Bay the rest of their lives.

  • There are two principal bays of vast size, one called the gulf of St. Lawrence, the other French bay.

  • But this port (to obviate misunderstanding) is not on the Ocean lying eastward, but on that gulf which I have called French bay.

British Dictionary definitions for bay (1 of 5)


noun

a wide semicircular indentation of a shoreline, esp between two headlands or peninsulas

an extension of lowland into hills that partly surround it

US an extension of prairie into woodland

Word Origin for bay

C14: from Old French baie, perhaps from Old French baer to gape, from Medieval Latin batāre to yawn

British Dictionary definitions for bay (2 of 5)


noun

an alcove or recess in a wall

any partly enclosed compartment, as one in which hay is stored in a barn

an area off a road in which vehicles may park or unload, esp one adjacent to a shop, factory, etc

a compartment in an aircraft, esp one used for a specified purposethe bomb bay

nautical a compartment in the forward part of a ship between decks, often used as the ship’s hospital

British a tracked recess in the platform of a railway station, esp one forming the terminus of a branch line

Word Origin for bay

C14: from Old French baee gap or recess in a wall, from baer to gape; see bay 1

British Dictionary definitions for bay (3 of 5)


noun

a deep howl or growl, esp of a hound on the scent

at bay

  1. (of a person or animal) forced to turn and face attackersthe dogs held the deer at bay
  2. at a distanceto keep a disease at bay

bring to bay to force into a position from which retreat is impossible

verb

(intr) to howl (at) in deep prolonged tones

(tr) to utter in a loud prolonged tone

(tr) to drive to or hold at bay

Word Origin for bay

C13: from Old French abaiier to bark, of imitative origin

British Dictionary definitions for bay (4 of 5)


noun

Also called: bay laurel, sweet bay a small evergreen Mediterranean laurel, Laurus nobilis, with glossy aromatic leaves, used for flavouring in cooking, and small blackish berriesSee laurel (def. 1)

any of various other trees with strongly aromatic leaves used in cooking, esp a member of the genera Myrica or Pimenta

any of several magnoliasSee sweet bay

any of certain other trees or shrubs, esp bayberry

Word Origin for bay

C14: from Old French baie laurel berry, from Latin bāca berry

British Dictionary definitions for bay (5 of 5)


noun

  1. a moderate reddish-brown colour
  2. (as adjective)a bay horse

an animal of this colour, esp a horse

Word Origin for bay

C14: from Old French bai, from Latin badius

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Scientific definitions for bay


A body of water partially enclosed by land but having a wide outlet to the sea. A bay is usually smaller than a gulf.

A space in the cabinet of a personal computer where a storage device, such as a disk drive or CD-ROM drive, can be installed.

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