How to Use tidewater in a Sentence

tidewater

noun
  • At the head of the fjord is a tidewater glacier, a valley glacier that flows all the way to the ocean.
    Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Allot a few days in Columbia Bay, home to one of the state’s largest tidewater glaciers.
    Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Sea otters had great success in the wake of tidewater glacier retreat in Glacier Bay.
    Smithsonian, 21 Apr. 2017
  • There are two tidewater glaciers there, lots of waterfalls and birdlife.
    Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2019
  • As late as the 1980s, tourists on boats could see icebergs from Muir Glacier calving into the bay, but today Muir no longer meets the tidewater.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The airport in Freeport was reduced to a river of rushing tidewaters.
    Jasper Ward, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Access above tidewater is closed because of the Chetco Bar Fire.
    sacbee, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The park website highlights Bear Glacier Lagoon and boat tours that take visitors along the park's tidewater glaciers.
    Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
  • Located in northwest Greenland, the glacier is a kind of ice tongue, a tidewater glacier that is sensitive to changes in the water around it.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Located in northwest Greenland, the glacier is a kind of ice tongue, a tidewater glacier that is sensitive to changes in the water around it.
    Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Further down along the coast, the mountains get smaller and more rounded, and their lush green forms poke over beautiful tidewater glaciers.
    Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2023
  • On cruise ships en route to Juneau, a popular side trip visits Tracy Arm, a narrow, mile-high gorge that ends at a tidewater glacier.
    David Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2021
  • But the tidewater glaciers of Alaska — those that extend to the water’s edge — are almost entirely in retreat these days.
    Mark Adams, New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • It’s done in shallow tidewater, and by wading along the long cord, multiple baited lines can be tended.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Get on a boat: Much of the park is only accessible by water, including the fjord ecosystem and tidewater glaciers.
    Susan B. Barnes, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2018
  • While this is only one glacier as opposed to several in the national park, the Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America.
    You, refinery29.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Traps can be placed in tidewater off docks, bulkheads, bridges, and suspended from floats almost anywhere.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The Sound, known for its spectacular coastal scenery and tidewater glaciers, is also famous for its profusion of wildlife.
    Rosemary McClure, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • All three major producers are envisioned to be on board for the $43 billion project that would include a pipeline to tidewater.
    Dan Joling, The Seattle Times, 10 Sep. 2018
  • Great eating clams and mussels can be found almost anywhere there’s tidewater.
    Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Among its other attributes, the Chugach wilderness is home to the largest concentration of tidewater glaciers in America.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2018
  • Long before layout blinds, gunners on the Atlantic tidewater hid in the short coastal grasses using backboards for support.
    Joseph Albanese, Outdoor Life, 26 May 2020
  • With Alberta far from tidewater, getting the oil to market has proved an increasing challenge.
    Alan Freeman, Washington Post, 25 May 2018
  • Petersburg is a gateway to the LeConte Glacier, the northern hemisphere’s southernmost tidewater glacier.
    Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The work reopened 10 miles of the upper watershed to salmon and steelhead and restored marsh habitat for the San Francisco garter snake, California red-legged frog and tidewater goby.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The foundation hopes to enhance water quality and restore a 11-acre area into a vibrant habitat for plants and animals such as the tidewater goby fish and Western pond turtle.
    Bryce Alderton, Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Every single room of the Sondern-Adler House is a work of art, featuring floor-to-ceiling windows, fireplaces, and beautiful tidewater cypress ceilings throughout.
    Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2022
  • These tidewater glaciers are rapidly retreating and melting, like much of Earth’s ice, continually adding to rising sea levels.
    Jennifer Leman, Scientific American, 26 July 2019
  • From his hands came a slow, elegant tidewater of chords, unresolved and Impressionistic.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • When healthy, small creeks and estuaries like Loma Alta provide a home for unusual species such as the tidewater goby, a native California fish less than 2 inches long.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2021

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