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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small lagoon is formed by the stream between a sandbank and the rock wall.
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After the waters recede, extensive lagoons and marshes are formed as the ground gradually dries out.
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Corals also grow on the lagoon slope and in patches, known as reef knolls, on the lagoon floor.
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Fresh or brackish lakes and lagoons, usually reed-fringed, also marshes.
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It smelled toxic, looked like pus from the creature from the black lagoon and burned like hot coals on the skin.
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Several times a year, the waste is pumped from the lagoons and spread across cropland as fertilizer.
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There was little to choose between the water of the Venice lagoon and the air above it.
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With its loss of flow, the river's old mouth had silted up, thus forming the lagoon and swamp.