How to Use seaweed in a Sentence

seaweed

noun
  • There was no wind, and piles of seaweed lined the shore.
    Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The bio resin made of seaweed is the link for the arachnid.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Hold fast to the seaweed with a good grip to make a clean cut.
    Sunset Magazine, 19 July 2022
  • The quest of a Long Island seaweed farmer to make kelp the next kale.
    New York Times, 10 June 2022
  • There, Rona communes with the waves, the seaweed, and the rugged landscape.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2024
  • That’s the line where the tide leaves deposits like seaweed or shells.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The oysters, bedded on ice and seaweed, are sea-breezy on the nose and briny in the mouth.
    Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The snack is wrapped neatly with a piece of nori or dried seaweed.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In step with the decline of coral is the rise of algae, or seaweed.
    Benji Jones, Vox, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The seaweed is grown in the tanks along with the algae that went into the breakfast bar.
    Evan Fraser, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Take a trip to the ocean, go be with a lobsterman or a seaweed farmer.
    Carita Rizzo, Deadline, 21 June 2024
  • Use this on green onions, rosemary, cilantro, and seaweed, just to name a few.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 15 Sep. 2022
  • And what changes would need to be made to mimic the effect of a seaweed diet?
    WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The rounds of seaweed are crisp and curved, cradling a smear of mashed avocado and a heap of caviar.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There is a pronounced seaweed/salty tang of a rocky beach at low tide.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The seaweed is made up of algal species in the genus Sargassum.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Take the weedy sea dragon, a sea horse-like fish that waves its body like seaweed.
    Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • This gives you some time to score more reasonable rates and avoid the seaweed.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Chanel’s is a light seafoam, Essie’s takes its cues from seaweed, and Olive & June gives fatigue green a shot of teal.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, WSJ, 23 June 2022
  • Now, the farm grows both oysters and seaweed, and offers tours and tastings for guests.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The counters were covered in seaweed, which poked out of cabinets and the oven.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This gives you time to score more reasonable hotel rates and avoid the seaweed.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
  • There are huge brown blobs of seaweed in the water in Florida.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Still others say that it was based on the dark, ink-colored seaweed that sometimes washed up on the shore.
    Leslie Garrett, Good Housekeeping, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The kitchen sends a passel of dishes—the first a soupçon of smoky tofu mousse between two crisp squares of seaweed.
    Monica Kim, Vogue, 5 Jan. 2022
  • It’s stacked on a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed to make Spam musubi, and sold at fast-food chains like McDonald’s in Hawaii.
    Chris Boyette, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Life as a single seaweed along a rocky coastline can be tough.
    Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
  • In some places, the water reaches almost to the base of the island’s grassy dunes, and seaweed clumps beneath the steps of the walkways that lead from town to the beach.
    Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • At one point during their beach day, Turner, 26, and Jonas, 32, were seen taking a dip in the ocean as the singer held on to a piece of seaweed.
    Robyn Merrett, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2022
  • That’s thanks to a blend of skin-plumping hyaluronic acid and antioxidant-rich sea succulent and seaweed extracts.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 26 Sep. 2024

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