How to Use the seabed in a Sentence
the seabed
noun-
Search teams scoured the surface of the ocean and the seabed in hopes of finding the vessel.
— Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 22 June 2023 -
The core was just a fraction of the depth of sample the J.R. could extract from the seabed.
— Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024 -
The cables would be weighed down with old train wheels, which would anchor them to the seabed.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 -
But the seabed has a ledge and suddenly plummets 70 feet.
— Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023 -
Lodge wore a hard-hat with a company logo, and spoke of the need to open up mining on the seabed.
— Evan Halper, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023 -
The string of islands was a hub of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the seabed is strewn with shipwrecks from treasure fleets.
— Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023 -
McHale said that the repair crew needs to excavate the seabed floor to locate the cable.
— Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023 -
Deep Energy, a ship that lays pipe on the seabed, has rushed to the scene and sent robots into the water.
— CBS News, 21 June 2023 -
And just locating the drone might not be easy, given that it is likely scattered on the seabed.
— Lara Jakes Lara Jakes Michael Crowley Nick Cumming-Bruce Helene Cooper Matthew Mpoke Bigg Lara Jakes Anushka Patil Lara Jakes Lara Jakes Andrew Higgins Andrew Higgins Marc Santora Andrew Higgins Valerie Hopkins Nick Cumming-Bruce Nick Cumming-Bruce Valerie Hopkins Valerie Hopkins Marc Santora Eric Schmitt Anushka Patil Carly Olson Valerie Hopkins Eric Schmitt Eric Schmitt Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023 -
Almost immediately after the drill reached the seabed at the site, the crew pulled up the first of many sections of core.
— Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2024 -
Brandy Melville’s business model is built on churning out cheap items that are destined to line the seabed.
— Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024 -
Out to the right, a precipitous drop swiftly turned the seabed from sand to grass, a secret grove of turtles.
— Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023 -
Glassy, translucent sponges that cling to the seabed like chandeliers flipped upside down.
— Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023 -
They will be attached to the seabed on telescopic stilts which will allow the city to rise and fall with the waves and cope with rising sea levels.
— Laura Paddison, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023 -
So the ocean, and not space aliens, explains why ancient whale parts have turned up in Lincoln Heights and Mt. Washington, once the contours of the seabed.
— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024 -
Smalltooth sand tiger sharks grow up to four meters (around 13 feet) in length and are usually found toward the seabed.
— Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2023 -
Samples of mantle rock were recovered from a more than 4,100-foot-deep hole drilled into the seabed of the North Atlantic.
— Carolyn Y. Johnson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023 -
These cables, laid across the seabed, serve as key conduits between the billions of people who live in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
— Mike Coté, National Review, 10 Mar. 2024 -
The method in questions is bottom trawling, a practice that involves dragging heavy nets and equipment across the seabed.
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024 -
The Okeanos captures footage, water samples and even living specimens from the seabed.
— Andy Lusk, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Wind farm leases on the seabed are contributing to soaring profits.
— Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023 -
By the 1990s, China expanded its claims beyond islands and rocks to include the water itself, the seabed below and the airspace above.
— Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 6 July 2024 -
Two factories that would make the steel tubes that will be driven into the seabed to support the ocean turbines are being built at a port in Paulsboro, N.J.
— Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023 -
The rocks were recovered from a tectonic window–a section of the seabed where rocks from the Earth’s mantle were exposed along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Aug. 2024 -
The towers, which will be anchored to the seabed with cables, will be obscured from the beach by fog, weather patterns and the curvature of the Earth, supporters say.
— Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2024 -
Its holdings include much of the UK’s seabed, and with it rights to grant permissions to build offshore wind farms, lay pipelines, and store carbon under the seabed.
— Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 17 July 2024 -
The Climate Foundation harvests seaweed and also lets some fall to the seabed, where its carbon is sequestered.
— IEEE Spectrum, 21 Dec. 2023 -
The warm water is only bathing a small area about a foot above the seabed, but scientists found many female octopuses brooding in the warm pool.
— Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023 -
Researchers used the crab-like robot to collect plastic litter on the seabed and deposit the debris in a central collection bin.
— IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023 -
After all, standing in your waders picking oysters from the seabed and shucking them on the spot is the finest destination in which to consume this famous treat.
— Lars Hinnerskov Eriksen, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
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