How to Use red tide in a Sentence

red tide

noun

• Like this month’s red tide, the 2018 event brought a lot of death.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• And then, as soon as the red tide had ebbed, the All Clear was sounded.
  — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 26 Jan. 2024
• And that iron feeds the algae that compose the red tide.
  — USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2019
• Strapped for cash and resources, Democrats are trying to turn back the red tide.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
• The impact of this year’s red tide on clam shacks and consumers has been mixed.
  — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• No one likes to get caught without a cup, tampon, or pad once the red tide sets in.
  — Priscilla Blossom, Glamour, 24 Dec. 2019
• Both blue-green algae and red tide cause a host of health problems.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• For instance, if the GOP’s red tide gets to be too big, those islands may shrink too small to save the Democrats.
  — NBC News, 1 May 2022
• Three years ago, massive blooms of the red tide prompted some beaches to close.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 June 2021
• The deaths of thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area have been blamed on a toxic red tide.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• That’s likely feeding the current red tide off the mouth of the Caloosahatchee River.
  — Larry Brand, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2021
• There are organisms in the red tide that glow when they’re stirred up by things like breaking waves.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 May 2018
• People have been warned not to swim in water affected by a red tide, eat seafood from it, or breathe the air near it.
  — Bill Weir and Shelby Rose, CNN, 7 Feb. 2020
• Following the red tide, Fort Meyers shared that the town plans to use heavy equipment to remove the creatures.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 2 Mar. 2023
• An outbreak of red tide is killing fish off the southwest Florida coast.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The red tides, in turn, are worsened by climate change, scientists say.
  — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2019
• The current red tide has lasted about a year so far, the longest stretch in more than a decade, and has spread from the west coast to the east, hurting the tourism industry.
  — Arian Campo-Flores, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2018
• The move could avoid a disaster at the reservoir but could also have harmful effects such as red tide and fish kills in the bay.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2021
• The track was recorded for Copa Airlines as a send-off for the national team, known as la marea roja (the red tide).
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 13 June 2018
• In 2017, state wildlife officials blamed red tide for a spike in manatee deaths.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 1 Mar. 2018
• Florida officials say records of red tide along the state’s Gulf of Mexico coast date back to the 1840s.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
• The state spent millions in 2018 on beach cleanups as well as money into research on how to battle red tide.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
• Everglades City remains a fishing paradise, as it was not hit by the red tide that ravaged the state in 2018.
  — Outside Online, 13 May 2019
• Dead fish are everywhere, killed by a red tide that has turned Tampa Bay toxic.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 26 July 2021
• In Washington, the House passed a bill in September aimed at finding a solution to the red tide plague.
  — Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2019
• This time of year, coho salmon are coming in from the ocean to head upstream to spawn—and potentially passing through the red tide.
  — National Geographic, 16 Oct. 2020
• In Florida, algal blooms known as red tide have wiped out hundreds of tons of marine life.
  — New York Times, 28 July 2021
• Most Chinese coastal cities pump at least half of their waste directly into the ocean, which causes red tides and coastal fish die-offs.
  — Thomas N. Thompson, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2013
• Stone crab hauls have faced many challenges over the years: Hurricane Irma, red tide and blue-green algae blooms took their toll.
  — Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• The organism that causes red tide is toxic and can affect the central nervous system of fish, often killing them.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024