Sentences with 'inlet'
Example sentences and phrases with the word inlet and other words derived from it.
• « One morning last autumn, I sat on the terrace of a hotel in Portlligat, the village at the easternmost tip of Spain, watching the dawn sun work its magic on the crescent moon-shaped inlet at my feet. »
• « On 24 March 1806, Captain Santiago de Liniers, head of the fort at the inlet of Barragán (next to the present-day city of La Plata, Argentina), warned the viceroy that an English fleet was off the coast of Quilmes. »
• « On 28 June 1807, the invaders disembarked in the Barragán inlet and began their advance on Buenos Aires. Commander Liniers waited for them by the Riachuelo, at the Gálvez Bridge (now Prilidiano Pueyrredón Bridge), but the British avoided meeting him by crossing the Burgos Pass (now Alsina Bridge). The British marched as far as the Corrales de Miserere, where they were overtaken on 2 July by Liniers' troops, who dispersed after fighting with little luck. »