Bayou in a sentence as a noun

A couple of years back, I met my friend's grandma down in the bayou on the border between Texas and Louisiana.

After carefully moving it into a cat carrier, I helped the opossum find a new home about a mile away at the bayou.

Keep your mind open, make a commitment when it’s right, and build a good life wherever your heart tells you to stay. But don’t be a self-important preachy idiot to the locals in the process, or your bodily remains will be discovered in some bayou, holler or arroyo.

But in the general scheme of things, we are tiny ants crawling over the dry parts of an ant-hill floating on a small blue puddle somewhere in the backwater bayou of the universe.

Bayou definitions

noun

a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)