How to Use sea level in a Sentence

sea level

noun

• But Smith’s group will play at (or near) sea level for the rest of the season.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• Front Street may need to be set back from the ocean due to rising sea levels.
  — Sara Kehaulani Goo, Axios, 4 Aug. 2024
• The Narayani flows through the city of Pokhara, nestled in a valley less than 3,000 feet above sea level.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
• These glaciers make up about 12% of the entire ice sheet and hold enough ice to raise sea levels by about 4.3 feet.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
• To try to fathom it, picture trekking from sea level to the top of the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The stone wall remained hidden for about the last 8,500 years when it was submerged due to sea level rise.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• Most of the Maldives, for instance, lies just a meter above sea level.
  — Sara Clemence, The Atlantic, 3 July 2023
• Hills are scarce—the country’s highest point is just 1,000 feet above sea level—and caves are even scarcer.
  — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
• Ouray is 7,800 feet above sea level at the base of the San Juan Mountains in south-central Colorado.
  — James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
• Then in 2021, rain fell at the summit of Greenland – roughly two miles above sea level – for the first time on record.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• This 200-mile stretch of coastline has one of the highest rates of erosion and sea level rise in New Zealand.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• The topo map will show the contour elevations of land above sea level.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
• The new report finds that sea level rise fueled by climate change is the biggest risk.
  — Julia Simon, NPR, 22 May 2024
• According to a report from the city, the Bellwether District is at risk of up to 4 feet of flooding and up to 6 feet of sea level rise.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
• These phenomena can cause sea levels to rise near the ice sheets and fall in the mid-latitudes.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The melting of glaciers is responsible for more than a fifth of global sea level rise.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
• The shelf acts like a cork, holding the glacier back on the land and providing an important defense against sea level rise.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Losing more and more of it could hasten the decline of the continent’s ice, which would add many feet to global sea levels.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
• Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak above sea level.
  — Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
• The glacier contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by several feet or more.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• That lake would have an elevation of around 667 feet above sea level.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 14 July 2023
• Today, rising sea levels caused by climate change are putting the ancient site at risk.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 June 2024
• Just this week scientists announced that sea level rise at Key Largo triggered the demise of a rare cactus tree.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
• It has been found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, thirty-six thousand feet below sea level.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Shepherd's group concludes that ice sheet melting has accounted for about one-fifth of the world's sea level rise since 1992.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Situated 8,000 feet above sea level with views of the Uinta Moutains, there is simply not a more creative space in the whole state.
  — Meg St-Esprit, Good Housekeeping, 29 Dec. 2022
• Scientists have taken video footage of a fish more than five miles below sea level.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• But the city-state will have to reinforce and improve those shields as tropical storms increase and sea levels rise.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• At 8,000 feet above sea level, Iten is marked with lush vegetation and striped with Kenya’s iconic red clay roads.
  — Kristin Jenny, Outside Online, 30 Jan. 2023
• The metropolitan area of 13 million people is prone to floods and typhoons and is battling a rapid rise in sea levels.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 26 July 2024

Last Updated: 14 Sep 2024