How to Use reef in a Sentence

reef

noun

• Black sea urchins feed on the algae that grows on the reef.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 2 June 2023
• The food scene on Bonaire is as vibrant as the reef fish.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
• Now, if the heat event ends quickly, the reef will not die.
  — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2023
• A lot of boats floated out of the harbor that were stuck on the reef.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• Now the reef just needs to keep up the good work for another 27 years.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• The reef covers much of the bay, so there are no waves to throw your board off balance.
  — Brittany Loggins, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
• The grim news comes despite other signs of hope at the region’s reefs.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• The Severn struck a reef, but help arrived the next morning and rescued the schooner’s crew.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
• In total, that’s more than two square miles, or 1,055 football fields of reefs.
  — Louise Schiavone, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• As the captain raced back to the bridge, the Exxon Valdez shuddered and crashed to a halt, its metal hull tearing open on the reef.
  — Lois Parshley, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2022
• So far, the researchers noted that heat stress does not appear even across the reef.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Dianne Bennett had spent a lot of time walking along the reefs and knew the soundtrack well.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2024
• This reduces food for native fish and hurts reef health.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• The reef site will be one of 25 artificial reefs managed by the DMF.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• In a 2020 study, researchers learned that grey reef sharks in the Pacific Ocean may spend time in groups for up to four years.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• Deep reefs cover more of the ocean floor than tropical reefs.
  — Christina Larson, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• Most people go with plans to get out on the water and dive, snorkel, fish, or just boat from reef to sandbar and back again.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• To the south, Sea Palling and nearby areas are protected by a sea wall and rock reefs off the beach, due to the risk of flooding.
  — Olivia Rudgard, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• The greater numbers and the growth of oyster reefs is a promising sign for bay health, officials said.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• The company offers full- or half-day snorkeling trips that take folks to Looe Key Reef, one of the best reef's in the area.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2023
• The Flying Dutchman’s on the reef My 80th-birthday party.
  — Martin Scorsese, Rolling Stone, 17 Sep. 2023
• Those cases were left on the ocean floor for over a year, just long enough for a reef ecosystem to develop on the crates and bottles.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• These chameleons of the sea can quickly switch from white to a reddish brown to blend in with reefs, but their skin may be hiding something else.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
• Early in the month a boat carrying at least 32 migrants crashed and broke up on a Point Loma reef.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• The couple decided to head to the Lanai shoreline, which the boat’s captain had said to avoid because of shallow reefs.
  — oregonlive, 8 Mar. 2023
• 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
• In order to save the reef, scientists have moved some species hundreds of miles away to a lab in Orlando.
  — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
• Oysters have grown in that spot before, and there are oyster reefs nearby.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The boat was near Elphinstone reef, which is popular with divers.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 13 June 2023
• Pineapples, manatees, reefs so thick with fish that boats could barely row to shore.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024