Great South Bay

noun

1. an Atlantic Ocean inlet, between the S shore of Long Island and Fire Island and other barrier islands. 45 miles (72 km) long.

Example Sentences

It was here that the bodies of four women were found in December 2010, wrapped in heavy burlap, on a gentle slope that falls away to the quiet marshland of Gilgo Beach and the calm waters of the Great South Bay.

From Seattle Times

The only fish I ever had was the flounder my father caught from his Bayliner in the Great South Bay, which my poor mother –– who hated fish –– had to clean and filet.

From Salon

Babylon Town Supervisor Rich Schaffer described hearing the explosion Sunday from his home about a quarter-mile from the Great South Bay.

From Fox News

When this keystone species all but disappeared from the Hudson River — and also dwindled in Long Island's Great South Bay, and the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays, and in estuaries throughout the South, in the San Francisco Bay and elsewhere on the West Coast — it took with it habitat and food resources for numerous species of fish, insects, birds, other animals, and plants.

From Salon

The garlic-scented rice with the spicy, buttery oysters were like a taste of home — even if it turned out the oysters I bought had been harvested from Long Island’s Great South Bay.

From Washington Post