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[ US /ˈbaɪu/ ]
[ UK /bˈa‍ɪuː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)

How To Use bayou In A Sentence

  • Leo Nocentelli, co-founder of the Meters and New Orleans guitar legend, may not have turned Blues Alley into the steamiest place in Georgetown on Wednesday night when he re-ignited "Fire On The Bayou. In concert: The Meters Experience at Blues Alley
  • One of the chief reasons for removing old, oil and gas wells from south Louisiana's lakes and bayous is that those areas are vulnerable to storms and hurricanes, and any collapse in structures could threaten the public, Lopez said. Susan Buchanan: Louisiana Removes Defunct Oil Wells But Hazards Remain
  • How much do you know about the South: the forests of the southern Appalachians, the swamps and bayous, the barrier islands, keys, and coral reefs?
  • William Ragsdale, playing the Sheriff oof, playing sheriffs... well, life is short of a small bayou town hagged by what seem to be Biblical plagues. Oh, you're so COOL, Brewster!
  • Finally, man-made ditches, as well as existing bayous, sloughs, and streams in the St. Francis Watershed, provide suitable habitat for P. capax.
  • In the town of Golden Meadow, along Bayou Lafourche, crabber Thomas Barrios said he felt "devastated" and "helpless. BP installs insertion tube, begins siphoning oil from leaking pipe
  • Alabama's Gulf Coast extends over 32 miles of beaches along the Gulf of Mexico and inland areas of live oaks and pines, freshwater lakes, rivers, bayous, and coves, all showing an abundance of birds.
  • “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman is Southern fantasy with a tenebrous twist. Books in 2009, #12
  • And if you are anywhere below that level, you are going to get water in Houston proper, because of those drainage ditches that they call bayous and we will watch those go up all night tonight, 100-mile-per-hour, maybe 95 - mile-per-hour winds in downtown Houston. CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2008
  • This web-footed rodent living in the bayous and backwoods of Louisiana has become a kind of unofficial state animal, an anointed nuisance with resident status.
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