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at bay

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. at bay(p), cornered, trapped, treedadjective

    forced to turn and face attackers

    "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal"

Wiktionary

  1. at bayadverb

    Unable to come closer; at a distance.

  2. at bayadverb

    Cornered; unable to flee.

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  1. at bay

    "At bay" is an idiom used to describe a situation where someone or something is cornered or kept in a position where they cannot move forward or attack. It's often used to refer to keeping a threat or danger under control and preventing it from causing harm.

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    Read the full text of the At Bay poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox on the Poetry.com website.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of at bay in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of at bay in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of at bay in a Sentence

  1. Chief Wilfred King:

    This virus doesn't stop at the Gull Bay First Nation border, it can get very bad in this region if this isn't addressed in a strong meaningful way.

  2. Vicki Hart:

    I assisted a friend who served on the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and this is inaccurately being tied to Smithfield Foods, i was not paid for this assistance, and any suggestion that I lobbied for Smithfield Foods is inaccurate.

  3. Alka Pradhan:

    I think it's extraordinarily disappointing that [ Biden ] has not suspended these military commissions, scrapped them frankly and taken further steps to close Guantanamo Bay, the fact that they haven't even made progress on cleared men aside from one individual case doesn't give me a whole lot of hope.

  4. Bruce Arians:

    Just to clear you up on some things that happened : at no point and time during that game did he ever ask the trainer or doctor about his ankle, that's the normal protocol, you go through protocols during games. I was never notified of it. So obviously, that was the disturbing thing when we were looking for him to go back into the game. He was very upset at halftime about who was getting targeted, got that calmed down, players took care of that. Read MoreBruce Arians prior to the game between the New York Jets and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. {.

  5. Joe Biden:

    If you take that attitude that, 'Look, we know what’s best for us, we believe in America – we're strong and we have a military and we know what would go,' then you could put people at bay, it’s really like a gangster in the neighborhood back in the day.


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  • σε απόστασηGreek
  • kurissa, kaukana, ahdistettu, poissa, selkä seinää vasten, nurkkaFinnish
  • aux aboisFrench
  • în șah, legat, la distanțăRomanian

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