How to Use intertidal in a Sentence

intertidal

adjective

• Life in the intertidal zone can be nasty, brutish, and short.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Check out the Friends of the Elephant Seals live cam to watch pups bask in the sun and learn to swim in the intertidal zones.
  — Christian Heeb, National Geographic, 27 Mar. 2020
• The whale came to rest in the intertidal area, where crabs can feed on it at high tide and birds can do so during low tide.
  — Kenny Ocker, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
• Along the Pacific coast, Dungeness crab live in the intertidal zone out to a depth of about 560 feet.
  — Isabella Breda, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
• That’s when the receding water reveals the intertidal sand in which the clams live.
  — David Berger, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• At the lowest of tides (a negative low tide is best), the ocean retreats and the intertidal zone is revealed.
  — Jill Robinson, Travel + Leisure, 31 Mar. 2021
• Another lesson: Putting these test reefs in the intertidal zone – where they’re exposed to the air at low tide – does a lot to protect them.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2023
• Areas close to the intertidal zone, such as New Orleans, are forecast to be swamped by hours of rain as well as storm surges from the Gulf of Mexico.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 13 July 2019
• On a hot summer’s day, two female polar bears took to the shallow intertidal waters to cool off and play.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• The best areas to locate geoduck are below the intertidal beach area beyond the zero feet to minus-2 feet.
  — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
• Mussels that formed blue mats along a certain level of the intertidal rock and gravel are missing.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 10 July 2017
• Known as a sea stack, the 235-foot monolithic rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon, is considered to be the third-tallest intertidal structure in the world.
  — Jean Chen Smith, The Enquirer, 19 June 2021
• When submerged by the incoming tide, limpets set out on a slow journey across the intertidal boulders of their habitat.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 1 July 2021
• In some spots, the sandstone cliffs and intertidal boulders are studded with fossil shells and bits of fossilized bone that date to more than 23 million years ago.
  — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
• The whales are quite daring, traveling up to a mile into the intertidal zone in the Snohomish River delta offshore of Everett.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2021
• Explore the sea life of the intertidal area, watch the sky change into a watercolor painting as the sun melts into the horizon, and walk along the dramatic cliffs and caves.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• As the name suggests, Quarry Cove used to be an old rock quarry, repurposed into an intertidal area in the early 1990s.
  — OregonLive.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• Most reliable tide pools are found on the rockier central and southern coastline, though intertidal life thrives along rocky headlands and sea stacks on the north coast as well.
  — oregonlive, 17 July 2021
• But this tactic doesn’t work so well on land, and some moray eels are known for wriggling around out of the water during low tides in search of crabs and other intertidal delicacies.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2021
• Those treading into intertidal areas also need to take great care not to injure or destroy the plants and animals that live there.
  — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2021
• The latest target date for groundbreaking on construction of intertidal habitat in San Diego Bay is this fall.
  — Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• The researchers visited beaches, state parks, and marine reserves up and down the coast for nearly 3 years recording and collecting sea-life that washed up on shore and along the rocky intertidal zones.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019
• People would till the sediment, replenish shells in the water, and construct low intertidal rock terraces that flatten the shoreline and expand the farmable area.
  — Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
• Almost a century and a half later, shifting sands in an intertidal area of Golfo Nuevo started to expose the remains of a ship in the same area where the Dolphin was believed to have wrecked.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• Sapir, now a biologist at University of Haifa-Orani, and his team sampled scoops of dirt from the dry lakeside, the intertidal zone and from sediment within the lake.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
• Researchers will analyze sediment samples from the test pits for traces of pollen and microfossils that might yield clues as to whether the stones were built in an intertidal marsh, a wooded area, or on farmland.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 1 July 2018
• Challenging may be an understatement, for Cyr and Fernandes are far from the first to attempt to reclaim the intertidal zone from private owners.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2021
• The researchers found that after eleven years without the rats, the native shorebirds and the intertidal communities began to reach levels similar to those on the islands that had never had rats.
  — Ellie Shechet, Popular Science, 10 Mar. 2021
• Clamming is backbreaking work, the association said, as soft-shell clams burrow in intertidal areas and workers dig them up by hand with rakes and hoes.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2021
• Two years later, the intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest coast is still recovering from a devastating heat wave.
  — Kylie Mohr, The Atlantic, 24 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024