How do you use the word "bight" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "bight": Heligoland is located in the German Bight.

Bight Meaning

/baɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA corner, bend, or angle; a hollow

nounAn area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.

Sentence Examples

Heligoland is located in the German Bight.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The sailors anchored the ship in the sheltered ____ along the coast.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ship dropped its heavy anchor in the center of the quiet ____ today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland Frisian Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), West Frisian bocht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Dutch bocht (“bay, bight”), German Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Icelandic bót (“bight, cove, small bay”); also Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”), Ukrainian бга́ти (bháty, “to crumple, twist”), Sanskrit भुज् (bhuj, “to bend, curve; to sweep”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river." — 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166:

"I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking." — 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I:

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