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Puget Sound

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noun

  1. an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Washington State, forming the southern portion of the Salish Sea.


Puget Sound

/ ˈpjuːdʒɪt /

noun

  1. an inlet of the Pacific in NW Washington. Length: about 130 km (80 miles)


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Puget Sound1

First recorded as Puget’s Sound; named after British naval lieutenant Peter Puget (1765–1832), who accompanied George Vancouver on the Vancouver Expedition (1792)

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Example Sentences

I remember being 14 years old one summer, staying with a friend on a small island off Puget Sound in Washington.

Union leaders say Boeing plans to eliminate 1,800 Puget Sound jobs once the North Charleston facility is fully operational.

Should Boeing have to transfer work back to the Puget Sound area to maintain jobs there?

Karen Fisher lives on Lopez Island, one of the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound outside Seattle.

Puget Sound, with its numerous inlets, is a deep indentation of the Pacific coast, one hundred miles north of the Columbia.

Sailing vessels make the voyage from Puget Sound to Shanghai in from thirty to forty days.

The Puget Sound cities wanted no breach in their monopoly of the supply trade to the north.

There were no mattresses and only one blanket to keep off the chill of a Puget Sound night in the cold, unheated steel cells.

That of 1844 had occupied the fertile valleys from Puget Sound on the north to Calapooia on the south.

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