How to Use water column in a Sentence
water column
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The little trout, in stocked lakes, come up in the water column to pick them off.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
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This has the potential to impact all of the water column, all of the ocean.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
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When the fish are up and aggressive, a spread of live bait will keep them high in the water column.
—David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 7 Mar. 2024
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When the water is warm, reel quickly and pop the rod tip to get the lure swimming in any part of the water column.
—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
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These lines are designed to sink to the bottom rather than floating in the water column.
—Joshua Reed, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2024
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As the bait slowly sinks through the water column both ends of the stick bait shimmy, driving bass nuts.
—Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
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To focus on the most productive area of the water column, use the adjustable zoom.
—Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
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It’s called a seep: Cracks or fissures in the ocean floor that gush liquid or gasses up the water column are commonly found in the world’s oceans.
—Gwozniac, oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
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The submersible could be bobbing on the surface, floating somewhere in the water column or resting on the ocean floor.
—William Neff, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
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As a storm moves in, however, the fish will move up in the water column, suspending as shallow as 5 or 10 feet.
—Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
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Try checking higher in the water column at six- or eight-foot intervals and see if the action changes.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
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Clouds of camouflaging ink squirt out and swirl in the Sundance water column.
—Robert Baker, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
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In white or silver a grub can represent a baitfish when reeled quickly through the middle of the water column.
—Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
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One rosette called Frankenstein can measure light’s effect on where zooplankton and fish move to in the water column.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
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One unanswered question is how mining will impact life in the water column.
—Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
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The two new reefs both occupy a layer of the water column with a low concentration of oxygen.
—Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
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The location of the debris field is also consistent with the water column in which the Titan lost contact with its host ship on Sunday.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
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The team uses two frequencies, one low and one high, to search for aggregations of the tiny krill, which typically hang out in the upper 650 feet of the water column.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2023
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No one knows how such an unprecedented incursion would affect the many life-forms that live in the abyssal depths, the marine life farther up the water column, or the ocean itself.
—WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
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Reel steadily to probe mid-levels, or work it erratically to fool fish through both levels of the water column.
—Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
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Plus, any impacts in the ocean would enter the water column and possibly damage very large areas up to kilometers away.
—Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
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Although the debris was found near the bow of the Titanic, officials did not believe the sub had collided with the wreckage, but rather imploded in the water column above the sea floor.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
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For mesopelagic fish, their poop is potentially released both at a deeper point in the water column and farther from shore, where the ocean itself is much deeper.
—WIRED, 9 Dec. 2023
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Some animals may move down the water column to darker, colder waters.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
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The seafloor destruction also launches plumes of carbon into the water column.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
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The tiny creatures have long been a favorite because of their ethereal appearance and curious way of hanging in the water column.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
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Beneath the dramatic sight of bubbles belching from the sea, the explosions also threw up sediment from the sea bed, returning it to the water column.
—Katharine Sanderson, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
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Instead of needing a long buoy-line suspended in the water column for extended periods of time, the rope and buoy can be stored at the bottom of the seafloor or replaced with an inflatable bag.
—Francine Kershaw, The Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2024
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Both the reef’s structure, the bottom or sediment, as well as the biomass, fish and other marine life in the water column, is capturing or trapping carbon, the scientists said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2023
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Interestingly, smallmouth bass hit any lure at every level of the water column in mid summer.
—Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023
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