How to Use oceanic in a Sentence

oceanic

adjective

• Cameron said that the next Avatar film will be much more oceanic than the last.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• The oceanic abyss is home to some of the gnarliest creatures on Earth.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020
• Sea turtles and mammals are near the top of the oceanic food chain.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• The oceanic dolphin species can grow to around 20 feet.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
• The shelf ends at a steep slope that transitions sharply to deep oceanic seafloor.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• At stake is the health of our oceanic ecosystems, where cetaceans play a role as top predators.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• Pilot whales are a species of oceanic dolphins that grow up to 23 feet and can weigh up to three tonnes.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2020
• Paris Design Week, where the Maison&Objet fair and the city’s design scene were awash in oceanic motifs.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 12 Sep. 2022
• The new Out of the Blue line pays homage to the late, great Jean Schlumberger and his legendary oceanic creations.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
• By then, dry air and strong wind shear prevailed over the oceanic regions where storms form.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• Bear with me: The oceanic heat has caused the Atlantic hurricane season to get off to a record-fast start.
  — National Geographic, 22 July 2020
• His hair is blond, shoulder length, pin straight, and parted in the middle, and his eyes are an oceanic blue.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Even with over 536 species of these oceanic apex predators, there is one shark that beats all others in terms of its size.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• But it’s the oceanic setting of the Metkayina that provides the sequel with its essence.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
• In this case, shrimp bring a welcome dose of oceanic refreshment to the sweet party.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 31 July 2019
• In the Mariana Trench, the whole arc is developed in oceanic crust.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• Many if not most of the sellers are less constrained by the volume of offshore goods in long oceanic queues off both coasts.
  — Sanford Stein, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Fittingly enough, some seaweed snacks, to help keep you in an oceanic state of mind.
  — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
• They’re forced to leave the forest and hide out in an oceanic village to escape the humans hunting them down.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• The team used oceanic robots, which look like torpedoes, off the coast of northern Canada and mapped the seafloor with sonar.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
• Towns and cities on the Atlantic coast got some respite early Tuesday, when a cool oceanic air mass arrived from the west overnight.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Sightings of this oceanic creature are so rare that this is the first time it has been spotted in the Pacific Ocean.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• More than half of oceanic shark species are endangered.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2021
• In recent years his work took on oceanic themes, sometimes with a dystopian twist.
  — Jamie Brisick, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• According to Rhy, the dress was inspired by oceanic elements and the great white shark.
  — Jamila Stewart, Essence, 1 July 2022
• Then exhale the air out of the mouth, keeping the restriction of the throat and maintaining the oceanic sound—as if fogging up a mirror with the breath.
  — Finnian Kelly, TIME, 8 July 2024
• In the eye-popping sci-fi epic, Winslet plays the sagacious Ronal, an alien queen and healer who leads the oceanic Metkayina clan.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• The touch of oceanic salinity in the coast wine accentuates the briny oyster.
  — Sunset Magazine, 12 Sep. 2024
• Hurricanes feast on oceanic heat and turn it into the energy of their winds.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024