How to Use pelagic in a Sentence

pelagic

adjective

• Large pelagic ocean dwellers swim along this reef to hunt prey.
  — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The bird reserve is home to four species of pelagic seabirds—the greater crested tern, lesser crested tern, sooty tern, and the brown noddy.
  — K A Shaji, Quartz India, 5 May 2020
• That affects how much plankton is available for small pelagic fish to eat.
  — Layla Schlack, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2021
• Reef fish lose their habitat, and pelagic fish such as tuna lose an important source of food.
  — National Geographic, 29 Aug. 2016
• But by far the most climate-friendly seafood is small pelagic fish, such as sardines, herrings, and anchovies.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 2 Apr. 2018
• Called pelagic red crabs, the animals look like small lobsters or crawfish and measure one to three inches long.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 12 June 2018
• But when the eggs of pelagic-spawning fish hatch, the babies are helpless—no mouth, eyes, gastrointestinal tract, or nervous system.
  — National Geographic, 3 May 2016
• The free-floating creatures eat pelagic gastropods, notably snails.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• In the next moments, all around me, lines were tight and various species of fish landed on the deck — lingcod, yellow-eye, black bass, even a mottled, black-and-orange, non-pelagic rockfish with venomous quills.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2020
• The Glaucus is considered to be a type of pelagic nudibranch that devours bluebottles and stores their stinging agents as defense against predators.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2023
• In other areas, the stocks of small pelagic fish can get dangerously low, and penguins end up competing with fisheries.
  — Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• In fact, none of the species with the longest pelagic larval durations — the eels in the order Anguilliformes — are circumtropical.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2015
• Recently, the bright red tuna crabs — known as pelagic red crab or pleuroncodes planipes — were spotted on the beach at Lovers Point in Pacific Grove and further out in the bay where gulls have been seen feeding off them.
  — Carly Mayberry, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2017
• From the late 1920s on, these shore stations were replaced by pelagic whaling stations, where whales were processed more efficiently on factory ships at sea.
  — Alessandro Antonello, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2020
• Only one pelagic cormorant nest was found — and later abandoned by the parents — when researchers typically see 150 nests.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2019
• Most of the small pelagic fish that swim in Senegalese waters — and make up 85 percent of the nation’s protein consumption — migrate in enormous schools between Morocco and Sierra Leone.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2017
• My research has focused on the migrations of animals that use the deep blue waters, away from the continental shelf (pelagic animals).
  — Daniel Madigan, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2012
• Larger fish like bluegill, panfish, and crappie hide from predators in the sunken branches, allowing pelagic populations to soar.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 5 Jan. 2023
• Now, new research off the California coast suggests an even larger plastics reservoir: deep offshore pelagic waters, the largest habitat on Earth.
  — National Geographic, 6 June 2019
• These learnings are now driving the development of new experiments for the next trip, such as trying to quantify the shockwaves close to the vent to understand the tolerance of the pelagic fish and sharks that are living around this volcano.
  — Nora Rappaport, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2017
• To illustrate, the researchers found large amounts of microplastics in pelagic red crabs and giant larvaceans, two filter-feeding species that reside in the midwater and are fundamental to food webs at both the ocean’s surface and floor.
  — Lydia Rivers, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2021
• His collection includes chocolate porcelain crabs, pelagic red crabs, scarlet sea cucumbers and sea butterflies — all species once rare but now common to the Sonoma coast.
  — Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• His collection includes chocolate porcelain crabs, pelagic red crabs, scarlet sea cucumbers and sea butterflies — all species once rare but now common to the Sonoma coast.
  — Nick Rahaim, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2019
• Having fossils on both sides of Beringia by the Early Miocene, however, now points to possible dispersal over land instead, an arguably more plausible path for the non-pelagic parrots.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2016
• My obsession has taken me from Florida, chasing pelagic fish to Oregon for pre-historic marvels.
  — Kristtine Fischer, Outdoor Life, 6 May 2020
• Once the pipe hit bottom, a drill plunged down to 75 meters into pelagic clay and calcareous nannofossil ooze at multiple different sites.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
• Due to altered nutrient pathways, abundance of pelagic baitfish has declined.
  — Steve Quinn, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2020
• But Vestergaard became a national hero, especially for fishermen and shipowners, who were fishing more pelagic fish than ever.
  — Regin Winther Poulsen, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2021
• Fishing practices, such as fish aggregating devices, which are floating objects designed and strategically placed to attract pelagic fish, are also thought to have contributed to the decline.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 23 July 2021
• She's dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms.
  — Rose Eveleth, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024