How to Use tide pool in a Sentence

tide pool

noun
  • Kids can look for starfish, snails, and anemones in the tide pools that form among the rocks at the north end of the beach.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • The park’s tide pool area closes at 4:30 p.m. each day.
    Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • As the girls, between the ages of 6 and 12, looked at fish in an inner tide pool, Mark watched over them.
    Maggie Jones, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
  • On the eastern side of the beach, there are several large tide pools.
    Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The resident saw a tide pool with a galaxy of gooey stars.
    Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The ochre sea star makes its home in rocky tide pools all along the California coast.
    Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 18 June 2018
  • Messy, gorgeous human beings caught in the epic tide pool of life.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Some of the very best hiking trails on the Oregon coast, from mountains to tide pools, forests to beaches.
    oregonlive.com, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Then there was the beach’s array of tide pools, which become exposed at low tide.
    Darryn King, Longreads, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Her neighborhood is famed for its tide pools, crystal clear and full of life.
    Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2018
  • The ranking suggests that visitors should be sure to check out the tide pools near Haystack Rock at low tide.
    oregonlive, 30 June 2023
  • The plant is located on the oceanside of Point Loma, about a half-mile north of the tide pools and less than a mile north of the tip of the peninsula.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • More than a dozen dipped into a tide pool on Treasure Island.
    Michael Adno, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Each has its own unique features: Montara has its wide sandy beach; Moss Beach has its tide pools.
    Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 11 July 2018
  • One paper from 1971 describes a moray that clambered into the same tide pool to hunt for five days straight.
    New York Times, 22 June 2021
  • Queen's Bath Queen's Bath is a natural lava stone tide pool that is about the size of a large swimming pool.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Take it to the shallow water or a tide pool; your kids will love looking at the undersea world.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In the middle, check out the tide pools brimming with tiny aquatic life, and keep an eye on the horizon for a pod of whales swimming by.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There are tide pools, hiking and mountain bike paths, Texas-sized waves for surfers, white sand, and car-free beaches.
    Caitlin Morton, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The next is the beach itself — small, tropical, and with a tide pool and rock formations to explore.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Kapoho Bay was just a little calm water gem where people could play, swim, hang out in the tide pools.
    Madison Park, CNN, 6 June 2018
  • The tide pools are covered with mussels and whelks, and that's just what Dr. Susanne Brander's team wants to collect.
    CBS News, 8 Nov. 2019
  • There was a tide pool just beyond that, full of sea creatures, the aquarium in real life.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Now my peeve: Laguna puts a lot of emphasis on those tide pools but closes its eyes to the shops in town that sell shells and starfish.
    latimes.com, 3 July 2018
  • François was hooked on aquatics after a childhood encounter with a sardine in a tide pool.
    BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Stay off jetties and avoid low-lying areas like beaches and tide pools.
    Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Flash back to your youth and rediscover the simple pleasure of watching critters in the tide pool.
    Sara Stoudt, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Spooner’s Cove beach is dog-friendly (on a leash), and boasts pebbly sand, tide pools, caves and unique rock formations.
    Jerry Rice, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
  • At low tide, the brown seaweed filling tide pools along the coasts of Cornwall and Devon counties in the United Kingdom does not look like much.
    Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Time your visit to the hour before or after low tide to explore the beach’s tide pools, teeming with starfish, mollusks and hermit crabs.
    Rico Gagliano, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018

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