Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of seamount
The data revealed that whale sharks tend to follow paths that connect key feeding grounds, with seamounts and industrial infrastructure acting as stepping stones along their journey.
—
Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Now, with the seamount's surface rising to 95 percent of its pre-2015 eruption level, researchers anticipate a new eruption within the next two years.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Under chemical analysis, scientists were able to reconstruct past environmental changes like ocean temperature shifts and the eruptions of underwater seamounts, which left their marks on the ancient sponge.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for seamount
Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Now, with the seamount's surface rising to 95 percent of its pre-2015 eruption level, researchers anticipate a new eruption within the next two years.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Under chemical analysis, scientists were able to reconstruct past environmental changes like ocean temperature shifts and the eruptions of underwater seamounts, which left their marks on the ancient sponge.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for seamount
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamount
Noun
-
Sun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.—
Aminatta Forna,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Aug. 2024
-
Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.—
Paul Voosen,
Science | AAAS,
26 June 2019
Noun
-
Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
-
Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.—
Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
Noun
-
The propane tank was also easy to attach with a large knob for tightening.—
Carrie Honaker,
Southern Living,
19 Mar. 2025
-
The release of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues was announced in a short teaser video (see below) on Wednesday that showed all knobs on Nigel’s amplifier being turned up to 11.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
-
However, its Crater Peak vent, located about 3 miles below the summit, has erupted fairly frequently in recent history.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
-
If finding indoor shelter is not an option: Stay away from open fields, hill summits, or ridge tops.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
-
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
-
Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.—
Gregory Thomas,
SFChronicle.com,
17 Sep. 2020
Noun
-
But after 12 people underwent a 34-day hunger strike in 2015, the pinnacle of a yearslong protest by community leaders determined to keep a neighborhood school, the district reversed its decision.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Mar. 2025
-
The pinnacle of prompt development entails a type of life cycle formalization akin to a rigorous systems development life cycle (SDLC), often noted as the PDLC (prompt development life cycle).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share