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Long Island Sound

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  • noun a sound between Long Island and Connecticut

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Examples

  • I know -- I know a little bit about this, because I've been fighting to save the Long Island Sound, which is between New York and Connecticut.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2008 2008

  • So we're not buying Dover sole anymore, we're using fluke from [New York's] Long Island Sound, which is fresher and cheaper.

    America's Pasta Pusher 2007

  • Boston, that they entered the inland sea now called Long Island Sound, and without one perilous adventure to give a zest to their irksome voyage.

    A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six 1825

  • You're just over the pond (aka Long Island Sound).

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound.

    Monkeytown prologue/chapter first Chris Vola 2011

  • There also were accommodations for student artists; greenhouses; a bowling alley; a working farm; and a lighted, cork-lined tunnel leading to the beach on Long Island Sound.

    Window on a Lush Life Stuart Ferguson 2011

  • The city's absolute cheapest listing is a decrepit, one-bedroom co-op roughly 50 feet from Long Island Sound in the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx.

    Picking Over the Low End Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

  • Navigate bike trails near Cape Town, water depths in Long Island Sound and the subway system in Rome.

    New on the Travel Scene 2011

  • About 70 firefighters poured into the Shippan neighborhood—a coastal enclave overlooking the Long Island Sound—to respond to a fire that residents said lit up the area.

    Deadly Fire's Cause Unknown Shelly Banjo 2011

  • Throughout the day, dozens of friends and neighbors streamed in and out of the neighborhood, walking past police barricades that blocked the entrance to the street down a road toward the Long Island Sound.

    Deadly Fire's Cause Unknown Shelly Banjo 2011

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