How to Use seawater in a Sentence

seawater

noun

• The city was drenched with rain, but hardly a drop of seawater.
  — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• The foul-smelling mix of seawater and fuel was washing across the deck.
  — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• So researcher Justin Voss draped the crates with a tarp soaked in seawater.
  — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• By 9 the next morning, as a crescent moon hung in the sky, all the pots were on board and the last of the crab was stowed below deck in the seawater tanks.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
• Since seawater contains a high amount of salt, so does sea salt spray.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• The rain and surge of seawater in the maze of rivers and bayous south of New Orleans threatened hundreds of homes.
  — Rebecca Santana, Time, 30 Aug. 2021
• Gulping up a mouthful of saline seawater can be gross, but how did all that salt get there in the first place?
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
• The starfish were then suspended by these clamps above a glass bowl of seawater.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2024
• Ida made landfall just to the west of Grand Isle with a wind gust recorded at 172 mph and seawater swamped the island.
  — Jay Reeves, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
• That means there’s now more seawater in contact with the bottom of the glacier, which means more melting.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
• One man lay on his back, thrashing his arms, as seawater splashed in his mouth.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
• Many of the watches found on the bodies registered times around 5:50 p.m., when the seawater or oil stopped them.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• First the whales gulp vast amounts of seawater into their massive maw.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• In Golovin, streets were flooded with seawater and sewage.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, the hurricane could grow in size and push more water onto shore in a surge of seawater, Franklin said.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
• More than half its body rose straight from the water, then crashed down in a crescendo of spraying seawater.
  — Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Last year, the seawater pushed upriver for longer, around five months.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave and Eraldo Peres, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2022
• As a result, seawater in this crevasse is freezing at the top, but melting at the opening.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• These tiny spines could have trapped food, much as rows of baleen in whales’ mouths filter seawater and trap plankton.
  — Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 July 2024
• Jagged limestone karsts rise from the gray seawater like so many jagged, unbrushed teeth.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
• The beach is also the ideal spot for wolves and foxes, which cruise the tide pools, looking for snacks when the seawater has withdrawn.
  — Emily Schwing, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2021
• Yoon held a glass of seawater that had just run through the desalinator.
  — Ian Mount, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Façades and floor tiles were 3-D printed using a durable amalgam of sand and seawater.
  — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
• Soon, Chance Strickland, the captain of a private yacht in Alaska, and his crew anchored and came ashore to spray the whale with seawater.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, New York Times, 31 July 2021
• At these sites, seawater percolates through the cracks in the ocean floor, picking up minerals along the way.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• Idalia's storm surges, for example, forced the salty seawater onto land, where it was met with heavy rain.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Then it will be diluted in seawater 100 to 1 before it's released in the ocean.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• The properties of the seawater are thought to vary by location.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• But far less is known about how cells and molecules stand up to the squeezing, crushing weight of thousands of feet of seawater.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2024
• The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024