How to Use seabed in a Sentence

seabed

noun
  • From there, the rest of the line lies on top of the seabed.
    Adam Elmahrek, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The Nord Stream pipelines are laid mostly along the seabed, and each is more than 750 miles long.
    Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Trace amounts have been found in seabed crusts, Antarctic snow, and lunar soil.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
  • The ship's ram as it was found on the seabed off Sicily at a depth of nearly 90 m, covered in marine life.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Drop stones are rocks that land on the seabed, sometimes with so much force that the sediment deforms.
    Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2021
  • All the rams, seven of the helmets, and six complete amphorae have since been recovered (the rest are still on the seabed).
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2022
  • In late 1995, a new map of the seabed was unveiled that bared riots of deep fissures, ridges and volcanoes.
    Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • Ask him about being pinned to the seabed by debris from the Titanic and you might be put off submarines for life.
    Alex Moore, Robb Report, 24 July 2021
  • The exceptions are sea cucumbers and some species that live buried beneath the seabed.
    Samuel Zamora, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
  • In this case, the crustacean—which mostly keeps to the seabed—buries itself beneath the sand, with just its eyes protruding from the mucky depths.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But scientists said that the main problem was underwater and that there was no way to clean the seabed.
    New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • As Huber notes, the group’s sonar equipment often detects strange objects on the seabed.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The find offers new hope that scientists will discover more thriving reefs, with 80% of the world’s seabed left to map.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2022
  • All of the sculptures are fixed to the seabed and made from specialized materials to promote coral life.
    Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Lying dormant on the seabed, the hollow barriers are filled with water to weigh them down.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Because of the extreme depth of nearshore waters along the West Coast, the turbines must be built on floating platforms or concrete barges that are moored to the seabed.
    Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Dense formations of these tiny fish were once mistaken for the seabed by sonar equipment.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 2 July 2021
  • The Gloucester remained half-buried in the seabed for more than 300 years until Julian and Lincoln Barnwell came along.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
  • Some dolphins carry sea sponges in their mouths, using them to stir up the sand on the seabed while protecting their snouts from sharp pieces of rock or coral.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Pipes would take the carbon dioxide 90 miles out under the North Sea, where it would be pumped below the seabed into porous rocks.
    Stanley Reed, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Nicholson has applied for funding to drill the seabed to confirm the asteroid impact and test its age.
    Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2022
  • This dives a kilometer down to examine the chemistry and shape of the seabed, using sonar to create a map of the surrounding area.
    Milly Chan, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The device's beacon was identified in the same area where the other data recorder was found, buried in the seabed under tons of plane wreckage.
    Tyler Van Dyke, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Morry Adelman once compared the oil price to a fish, which could rise above the ocean’s surface, but only briefly, and never go below the seabed.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The Crown Estate, which owns the seabed surrounding the U.K., expects that the six windfarms will generate $1.2 billion a year.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The sections will be placed just beneath the seabed, about 40 meters below sea level at the deepest point, and moved into place by barges and cranes.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • The researchers now want to drill into the seabed to both confirm that Nadir Crater is an asteroid impact crater and to test its precise age.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Without the aid of the gently sloping seabed that exists in the gulf, a storm on the Pacific side is less able to push large volumes water on to the coastline.
    Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Over 50 years ago there were a lot of treaties about use of the moon, Antarctica, and more recently, the deep seabed, in which countries have come together.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • The seabed is full of archeological wonders and a shipwreck from World War II.
    Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 4 June 2021

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