Synonyms for at bay
at bay

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1. at bayadverb

   Unable to come closer; at a distance.

   Synonyms:
   away, back, at a distance, at arms length

2. at bayadverb

   Cornered; unable to flee.

   Synonyms:
   cornered, trapped

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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"

   Antonyms:
   free

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1. at bay

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

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1. Hideki Matsuyama:

   I love the rain, absolutely love it, not to be spiritual about it, but I feel like it's God's way of just washing the streets and making everything fresh again. Because that's what happens in the Bay Area when we get a lot of rain. The streets are clean, spotless.

2. Senator Feinstein:

   The Golden Gate Bridge is a critical transportation link in the Bay Area with more than 40 million vehicle crossings each year and an iconic landmark that represents San Francisco, modernizing our state’s transportation infrastructure – incentivizing electric vehicles, improving transit hubs, deploying zero-emission buses and safeguarding our roads and bridges – is a critical part of keeping our economy growing, and I ’m proud to have worked with Senator Padilla to secure this vital grant.

3. Ammon Bundy:

   It is your duty to hold federal agencies at bay, protecting the people in your state.

4. Bay County Jail:

   There's hundreds, hundreds of people standing there -- watching, looking, seeing, hearing what's going on, and yet our culture and our society and our young people have got to the point where obviously this is acceptable somewhere. I will tell you it is not acceptable in Bay County.

5. Michelle McKeown of Oakland:

   It feels eerie, apocalyptic and frightening, i've lived in Bay Area since 1988 and never experienced such doom coming from the sky.