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Shunted through the narrow waist of the hourglass-shaped banks, the flow creates a Venturi effect -- a "force-feed buffet," as Bishop puts it -- that propels algae and plankton at the inlet's mouth to the oysters sheltered inside.

The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010

We are sitting on the rickety porch of Little Skookum Shellfish Growers 'onetime floating worker's quarters, watching the burly current that powers the inlet's special mojo.

The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010

He calls a proposal to replace the inlet's Bonner Bridge "extremely questionable."

Erosion control projects help beaches stand up to Irene 2011

He calls a proposal to replace the inlet's Bonner Bridge "extremely questionable."

Erosion control projects help beaches stand up to Irene 2011

In the past year, four onshore wells have been drilled along the inlet's banks.

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The two paused at the long line of boats and boat-sledges drawn up above the tumble of ice that would be the inlet's shoreline if there ever came a thaw to the sea.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

The inlet's slick wave-worn walls offered little in the way of hand or foot grips, and the crumbling rim overhung the water.

The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

Montgomery had taken Galveston even deeper into the inlet's mouth, taking advantage of this man-made sonar blind.

Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

All around her, twisted pieces of driftwood and brackish seaweed dotted the inlet's shore.

Moonheart De Lint, Charles, 1951- 1990

"The inlet's pretty narrow for a long reach through the marsh," said

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