Enclosed body of water on a tropical island

Usage examples of lagoon.

For the last few hundred yards the amtracs had been crawling over the shallow tidal flats, churning the coral mud under their heavy treads and rising farther and farther out of the lagoon.

When I was living with Dad on Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage they used to come sliding in on the Lagoon before the ice melted.

He had not bathed in over two months, since last they had anchored in the lagoon, and he longed for the feel of cool clear water on his skin.

He guessed that since they had anchored in the lagoon his father had cast his own horoscope.

Semerket made for the open waters of a far lagoon, weaving through the clumps of reeds with Assai in pursuit.

As Assai bore down, Semerket exhaled so that he could sink rapidly to the bottom of the lagoon.

Though now he could not see Assai himself, he shot off obliquely to the side of the lagoon, toward another thicket of reeds.

Ulithi in the sunset, received this blinker message from a carrier far up in the lagoon, one of a large number which had come in during the day and now were crowded at the north end of the anchorage, a mass of oblong shapes, black against the red sky.

We clung to the thwarts in silence as Chubby took us home on a wild ride, and it was only when we entered the quieter waters of the lagoon that we could continue the discussion.

The upper ends of the machines received apparently endless supplies of sand and cement from stock piles previously built up and of water pumped up from one of the big desalting units at the edge of the lagoon.

He noted that the isle in the lagoon, which held one of the castle dovecots, was but little diminished in size.

This spread swampy lagoons and salt water far into Central Asia and northward to the iceless Boreal Ocean.

When they again came to the surface, Bertha Kircher saw that they were in a large lagoon and that the bright stars were shining high above them, while on either hand domed and minareted buildings were silhouetted sharply against the starlit sky.

Besides, Herbert discovered towards the southwest point of the lagoon a natural warren, a slightly damp meadow, covered with willows and aromatic herbs which scented the air, such as thyme, basil, savory, all the sweet-scented species of the labiated plants, which the rabbits appeared to be particularly fond of.

Godzillas, lagoon creatures, giant Gila monsters: nothing now prevents life from running amok in the shower of mutagenic material already unleashed.