NOUN
- a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River
How To Use Chesapeake Bay In A Sentence
- By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
- We have no restrictions on where residents or their family members can dine," said Daniel Nimon, vice president at Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, in nearby Virginia Beach, which is also near capacity. NYT > Home Page
- In the U.S., the most widely grown oyster is the Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica), which is farmed down the East Coast and Chesapeake Bay. Oysters Come Back in Vogue
- Trigger Schafer, who had begun his career as an enlisted metalsmith working on CH-46s, bunked during the workweek in a 40-foot boat he docked at Solomons Island, a waterfront village at the confluence of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay. The Dream Machine
- Crushed clamshells, a waste product from the local Chesapeake Bay seafood industries, have been used to pave roadways.
- Intense line of storms now headed over Chesapeake Bay towards Delmarva Peninsula where Severe Thunderstorm Warnings are in effect. Alert: Tornado Watch for entire area until 8 p.m.
- Undaunted, I took the Cobra out on the Chesapeake Bay in small-craft warnings, the wind whipping the halyards of docked sailboats into a clanging frenzy.
- The ecosystem analyses have since expanded to look at regions - the Chesapeake Bay watershed, Puget Sound, and the Denver / Front Range area.
- Crushed clamshells, a waste product from the local Chesapeake Bay seafood industries, have been used to pave roadways.
- A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city. McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies
