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  • noun Plural form of bight.

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Examples

  • It gives them some cover when the news media bights into it.

    A Crushing Legacy of Bush 2009

  • It gives them some cover when the news media bights into it.

    A Crushing Legacy of Bush 2009

  • He noes al abowt sinnets an prolong nots mak gud silver bracelets an leads an bights an tings.

    For a present, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The distinctive bights of the body and the chink with the fingers are played normally from women by as being frequent details.

    Erotic dance from Orient 2008

  • About 104 miles long by 40 miles wide, with a convoluted coastline bisected by several large bights, the island has hundreds of square miles of bonefish flats — more than can be fished in a lifetime.

    Andros Island: Flyfishing in Bonefish Paradise 2005

  • Two starboard quarter wires parted; all bights of stern wires frozen in ice; chain taking weight. 2 p.m. —

    South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006

  • A dozen men-of-war are gliding majestically out of port, their long buntings streaming from the top-gallant masts, calling on the skulking Frenchman to come forth from his bights and bays; and what looms upon us yonder from the fog-bank in the east?

    Lavengro 2004

  • And here, in fern and yellow grass and tufted bights of bottom growth, the wind made entry for the sun, and they played with one another.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.

    Walden 2004

  • It was only on the very edge of the bank, and in the bottoms of the bights, that any eucalypti grew; the plains were covered with nothing but gnaphalium: the soil various, in some places red tenacious clay, in others a dark hazel-coloured loam, so rotten and full of holes that it was with difficulty the horses could travel over them.

    Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

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