How to Use oceanic in a Sentence

oceanic

adjective

• Cameron said that the next Avatar film will be much more oceanic than the last.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
• The area where the sharks flock to was referred to as the oceanic version of the Sahara desert.
  — Edmund Demarche, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• The oceanic abyss is home to some of the gnarliest creatures on Earth.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020
• Sea turtles and mammals are near the top of the oceanic food chain.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• The oceanic dolphin species can grow to around 20 feet.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
• Soon, the landscape turned more oceanic, with cliffs hemmed by pine and leafy forests.
  — Sylvie Bigar, miamiherald, 4 Nov. 2017
• Point Nemo, the oceanic pole, was by far the most difficult.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
• The shelf ends at a steep slope that transitions sharply to deep oceanic seafloor.
  — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• At stake is the health of our oceanic ecosystems, where cetaceans play a role as top predators.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
• Pilot whales are a species of oceanic dolphins that grow up to 23 feet and can weigh up to three tonnes.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2020
• Paris Design Week, where the Maison&Objet fair and the city’s design scene were awash in oceanic motifs.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 12 Sep. 2022
• The new Out of the Blue line pays homage to the late, great Jean Schlumberger and his legendary oceanic creations.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
• By then, dry air and strong wind shear prevailed over the oceanic regions where storms form.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• Magma rushed up to fill in the gap, just like when plates separate at a mid-oceanic ridge.
  — Ken Jennings, CNT, 2 Oct. 2017
• Bear with me: The oceanic heat has caused the Atlantic hurricane season to get off to a record-fast start.
  — National Geographic, 22 July 2020
• His hair is blond, shoulder length, pin straight, and parted in the middle, and his eyes are an oceanic blue.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• Even with over 536 species of these oceanic apex predators, there is one shark that beats all others in terms of its size.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
• But it’s the oceanic setting of the Metkayina that provides the sequel with its essence.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
• In this case, shrimp bring a welcome dose of oceanic refreshment to the sweet party.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 31 July 2019
• In the Mariana Trench, the whole arc is developed in oceanic crust.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• Many if not most of the sellers are less constrained by the volume of offshore goods in long oceanic queues off both coasts.
  — Sanford Stein, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• Fittingly enough, some seaweed snacks, to help keep you in an oceanic state of mind.
  — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
• They’re forced to leave the forest and hide out in an oceanic village to escape the humans hunting them down.
  — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• The team used oceanic robots, which look like torpedoes, off the coast of northern Canada and mapped the seafloor with sonar.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
• The Hemons hail from a part of Europe that has long been overwhelmed by the oceanic movements of empires and great powers.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
• Towns and cities on the Atlantic coast got some respite early Tuesday, when a cool oceanic air mass arrived from the west overnight.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
• Sightings of this oceanic creature are so rare that this is the first time it has been spotted in the Pacific Ocean.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
• More than half of oceanic shark species are endangered.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2021
• Down in the stunning, secluded Osa Peninsula, the park contains cloud forests, montane forests, prairies, wetlands, mangroves, and even oceanic habitats.
  — Brent Rose, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024