fog bank
a stratum of fog as seen from a distance.
Origin of fog bank
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How to use fog bank in a sentence
The truth is a blood-red fog bank rolled over all of us in Iraq and Afghanistan and never lifted.
Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too? | John Kael Weston | August 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOne year we were enveloped in a thick fog bank as we approached Menemsha Harbor.
The huge sail thrust its yard high above the fog bank, and watchers on the river side saw it.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe East is a muddy sea with no bottom, and it swallows a man like a fog bank swallows a ship.
The Belted Seas | Arthur ColtonWe were standing on the edge of the wharf, shut out from the world by a fog bank that left us to all intents alone.
The Pirate of Panama | William MacLeod Raine
The grey, heavy heave of the water; the great hull of the steamer backing into the bay; the gloom of the fog bank.
The Blind Spot | Austin HallHe pushed up through a fog bank at three thousand feet and reached blue skies.
Tam O' The Scoots | Edgar Wallace
British Dictionary definitions for fog bank
a distinct mass of fog, esp at sea
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