How to Use plankton in a Sentence

plankton

noun

• Will a plankton bloom help bring Delta smelt back from the brink?
  — Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 13 Feb. 2018
• Many fish are drawn to light with the promise of plankton, and spring right from the water to land in the boat.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
• The abundance of certain types of plankton and krill, at the base of the ocean food chain, is linked with the Antarctic sea ice.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 July 2023
• The blooms, in turn, attract plankton, a favorite prey of manta rays.
  — Christopher Pala, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017
• Krill eat the plankton, whales eat the krill, the whales poop, the phytoplankton bloom and the cycle continues.
  — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
• As the rest of the world’s oceans warm as well, coldwater fish, crustaceans and plankton are moving north to the Arctic.
  — Wired, 4 Dec. 2019
• Krill is sort of a plankton soup – the primary food of humpbacks and other baleen whales.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 11 May 2017
• The comb jellies, also called ctenophores, munch on tiny plankton along with fish eggs and larvae.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2020
• His business gets as many as 9,000 customers a year for kayak tours to see manatees and glow-in-the-dark plankton.
  — Jason Dearen and Mike Schneider, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2017
• The idea here is to fertilize the oceans with iron to stimulate algae and plankton blooms.
  — USA Today, 24 Dec. 2019
• The daily vertical migration of plankton from the ocean depths to the surface to feed may be the largest of its kind—at least in terms of biomass.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2017
• The daily vertical migration of plankton from the ocean depths to the surface to feed may be the largest of its kind—at least in terms of biomass.
  — National Geographic, 17 June 2017
• The team sampled three types of coral, two species of fish and plankton from 99 reefs across 32 Pacific islands.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
• When waves sweep plankton onto reefs, the fish devour them and in turn are eaten by larger fish.
  — Popular Science, 10 Dec. 2019
• The shad usually gather in open water at this time of year, coming to the surface at dawn and dusk to feed on plankton.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The ocean was never that acidic, however, so the plankton shells would have dissolved much slower, and there would have been no fizz.
  — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2020
• Magni had explained to the class that clothes can retain traces of plankton, sediment and soil.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2024
• The ocean is becoming more acidic, which threatens some plankton.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• The mussels feed on microscopic plankton - the base of the food chain that supports forage species such as threadfin shad.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
• Domoic acid travels up the food chain — from the plankton that eat the algae to squid and shellfish to the larger marine mammals that then eat them.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2023
• But not to worry – the strange creature eats tiny plankton and has no interest in human faces.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2023
• The pigments, which come from algae and plankton, imbue his slabs and chunks of wood with an otherworldly light best viewed in the dark.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2018
• The element is a fundamental part of DNA and is present in the bones of mammals, cell membranes and ocean-dwelling plankton.
  — Simrin Singh, CBS News, 14 June 2023
• But other salmon, like sockeye, need streams that lead up to lakes, and food in the water that feeds their babies, like plankton or insects.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• Humpbacks are baleen whales, feeding on tiny crustaceans, like krill, along with plankton and small fish, trapping them in the filters in their mouths.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• Blast fishing kills the entire food chain, including plankton, fish both large and small, and the juveniles that do not grow old enough to spawn.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• Despite their size — up to around 25 feet across — manta rays only eat plankton, shellfish and small fish.
  — NBC News, 12 July 2019
• To measure the movement of the plankton, Fram used bioacuoustic sonar equipment that is stationed off the Oregon coast.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• For over a decade, Shedd has cultured plankton in-house to feed and nourish tens of thousands of animals on site daily.
  — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Today, the entire plankton population in the surface layer of the world’s oceans is murdered by planktonic grazers and viruses every few days.
  — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 15 May 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024