gulf

In a sentence

Six example sentences with gulf, each labelled with its topic.

• We sailed three days across the gulf, with land visible on both sides until the water finally opened out.

  Travel

• Warm water pushed deep into the gulf that summer, and the shrimp beds along both enclosing coasts collapsed.

  Environment

• Traders crossed the gulf for centuries, hugging the enclosing shores because open ocean lay far beyond their small boats.

  History

• Oceanographers track how river water spreads across the gulf in spring before it mixes with the saltier open sea.

  Science

• The restaurant buys its oysters from the shallow gulf, where the enclosing shores keep the water calm and warm.

  Cooking

• Half the region's grain leaves through ports on the gulf, so a week of storms there raises freight costs far inland.

  Economics

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