1
Scotland
: lake
2
Scotland
: a bay or arm of the sea especially when nearly landlocked
Examples of loch in a Sentence
in his biography of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell tells of being conducted by a Scottish boatman “across one of the lochs, as they call them, or arms of the sea”
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Adrian Shine, who has been researching the loch in Scotland since the 1970s, helped identify the camera as one of six lowered nearly 600 feet below the loch's surface by Roy Mackal, of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau and the University of Chicago.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Isle of Skye and the Small Isles I’m a long-time fan of the Hebrides, so I was intrigued by this eight-night cruise around the sea lochs of the Isle of Skye and the Small Isles, which are Muck, Eigg, Rum, and Canna.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025
The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
Isle of Skye and the Small Isles I’m a long-time fan of the Hebrides, so I was intrigued by this eight-night cruise around the sea lochs of the Isle of Skye and the Small Isles, which are Muck, Eigg, Rum, and Canna.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Loch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loch. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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