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Long Island Sound

NOUN
  1. a sound between Long Island and Connecticut

How To Use Long Island Sound In A Sentence

  • THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first
  • So we're not buying Dover sole anymore, we're using fluke from [New York's] Long Island Sound, which is fresher and cheaper. America's Pasta Pusher
  • A town of southwest Connecticut on Long Island Sound near the New York border.
  • For the only time in his 50 years as a passionate New England skater, large parts of Long Island Sound froze solid enough to be skated on.
  • United States in Congress assembled_: That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to Captain David Ritchie, commanding the revenue steamer Mocassin, and to the officers and men under his command, for their heroic and humane action in saving the lives of forty-two persons from the wreck of the steamer "Metis" on the waters of Long Island Sound, on the morning of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
  • We have tried carpooling, vanpooling, buses, commuter and intercity trains, even bike paths-and we are about to start barging freight on Long Island Sound.
  • It was no great full-rigg’d ship, nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seem’d one of those superb little schooner yachts I had often seen lying anchor’d, rocking so jauntily, in the waters around New York, or up Long Island sound—now flying uncontroll’d with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sleet and winds and waves of the night. Edgar Poe’s Significance. Specimen Days
  • Northeast Utilities Environmental Laboratory staff list it among fishes they have trawled in Long Island Sound.
  • In February 2007, a team including Thornton prepared to set out from Boulder for a research cruise from Long Island Sound to Iceland via Norway.
  • A town of southern Connecticut on Long Island Sound east of New Haven. It is a residential community and summer resort. Population, 25,028.
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