How to Use coral in a Sentence

coral

noun

• Well, the fish fins, the fish bones, the kelp and coral.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2022
• The sand has been tinted pink from the coral on the beach and in the water.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Hawaii is one of the places on earth that would feel the loss of live coral the most.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
• Just three weeks ago, the coral was smaller than a grain of rice.
  — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
• The waters around the tiny island are thought to be home to around 400 species of coral.
  — Hannah Reyes Morales, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Some ideas: a piece of coral, a glass orb, or a small ginger jar.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
• Here, bright blues and shades of coral keep the living room lively and fun.
  — Grace Gallagher, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• The coral is at a level of preservation that is unique in the world.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Because the corals no longer act as a buffer as those waves come in.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
• Her team studied three species of coral from the island of Oahu, in Hawaii.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2022
• Just a few feet away, a chunk of ancient coral looms over the eroded beach path.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• In mere months, the coral has the potential to flourish once again.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2024
• Get it in a creamy yellow, coral pink, or bright white to add some spring fun to your wardrobe.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2023
• Heat stress that lasts more than a few weeks can lead the coral to die of starvation.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 May 2022
• It is agatized coral from between the Oligocene through Miocene age.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
• Philips said his team swam around looking for coral on the verge of spawning.
  — CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• At Sal, The Kitchen, diners sit in a unique setting with walls built out of coral and salt.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
• These are regions of the ocean that are home to unusual sets of coral.
  — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
• The oldest coral of the group has so far survived for nearly nine months.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• The process involves cutting the coral, which then grows faster while healing.
  — David Wallace-Wells, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2022
• During that time, the world’s oceans have lost perhaps a quarter of their coral.
  — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• And typically when things cool down again, some of the coral can come back.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• In the case of females being chased by males, the divers might have looked like a good place to take refuge such as a hunk of coral.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2021
• Now, hard coral survives on just about 5 percent of the bottom.
  — Alie Skowronski, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• The stressed coral will then have less time to recover and more will die as a result.
  — Brittyn Clennett, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2022
• Or, in the case of seashells and coral, carefully arrange and add new pieces to the jar to keep them from cracking.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 June 2024
• The color starts with a vibrant coral at the base of each piece, before fading to more of a rosy flush at the top.
  — Lauren Phillips, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2024
• These hexagonal steel frames, about 3 feet wide, bridge the gaps where coral has died.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
• Today bleached, dead white coral is seen everywhere — a die-off due to warming, polluted waters.
  — Lea Lane, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• Without these helpful algae, the corals become pale and are vulnerable to starvation and disease.
  — Reuters, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025