How to Use seawater in a Sentence

seawater

noun
  • The city was drenched with rain, but hardly a drop of seawater.
    Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The foul-smelling mix of seawater and fuel was washing across the deck.
    Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • So researcher Justin Voss draped the crates with a tarp soaked in seawater.
    Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • By 9 the next morning, as a crescent moon hung in the sky, all the pots were on board and the last of the crab was stowed below deck in the seawater tanks.
    Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Since seawater contains a high amount of salt, so does sea salt spray.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The rain and surge of seawater in the maze of rivers and bayous south of New Orleans threatened hundreds of homes.
    Rebecca Santana, Time, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Gulping up a mouthful of saline seawater can be gross, but how did all that salt get there in the first place?
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The starfish were then suspended by these clamps above a glass bowl of seawater.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Ida made landfall just to the west of Grand Isle with a wind gust recorded at 172 mph and seawater swamped the island.
    Jay Reeves, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • That means there’s now more seawater in contact with the bottom of the glacier, which means more melting.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
  • One man lay on his back, thrashing his arms, as seawater splashed in his mouth.
    The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Many of the watches found on the bodies registered times around 5:50 p.m., when the seawater or oil stopped them.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • First the whales gulp vast amounts of seawater into their massive maw.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • In Golovin, streets were flooded with seawater and sewage.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • At the same time, the hurricane could grow in size and push more water onto shore in a surge of seawater, Franklin said.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • More than half its body rose straight from the water, then crashed down in a crescendo of spraying seawater.
    Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Last year, the seawater pushed upriver for longer, around five months.
    Fabiano Maisonnave and Eraldo Peres, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2022
  • As a result, seawater in this crevasse is freezing at the top, but melting at the opening.
    WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • These tiny spines could have trapped food, much as rows of baleen in whales’ mouths filter seawater and trap plankton.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 30 July 2024
  • Jagged limestone karsts rise from the gray seawater like so many jagged, unbrushed teeth.
    Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Yoon held a glass of seawater that had just run through the desalinator.
    Ian Mount, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Façades and floor tiles were 3-D printed using a durable amalgam of sand and seawater.
    Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
  • At these sites, seawater percolates through the cracks in the ocean floor, picking up minerals along the way.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
  • Idalia's storm surges, for example, forced the salty seawater onto land, where it was met with heavy rain.
    Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Then it will be diluted in seawater 100 to 1 before it's released in the ocean.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • The properties of the seawater are thought to vary by location.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The fish were placed in a tank of seawater infused with a red dye that stained their teeth, then returned to their regular tank for 10 days.
    New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • And the water level would rise to the point where seawater was covering the players' mouths and going up their noses.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The idea is that engineers will use pumps to spread seawater on top of the ice that will freeze over winter and last longer into the summer months.
    Richard Windsor, The Week Uk, theweek, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024

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