Examples of sargassum in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The system is so frail that a power plant recently went offline because sargassum — seaweed — blocked its filters. — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021 Seeing is believing Whenever the ship approached clumps of sargassum seaweed, the participants would stop their meetings and jump into zodiac boats with their snorkeling gear. — Judith Magyar, Forbes, 24 May 2021 The Sargasso Sea is so named because of the mats of free-floating sargassum seaweed that grow there. — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2021 The algorithm picked out a sound within a dolphin pod that the researchers had earlier trained the dolphins to associate with sargassum seaweed—a clumpy, floaty plant that dolphins sometimes play with. — Philip Ball, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021 Low sargassum is expected for Mexico’s Caribbean beaches in the months of May through July, said Navy Minister Jose Rafael Ojeda. — Lorena Rios, Dallas News, 1 June 2020 There are small schools of juvenile trigger and file fish, and other species darting around or just hiding within the sargassum. — Arwa Damon, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019 Pszonowsky also said there haven’t been widespread reports of sargassum seaweed on beaches. — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019 Nutrient pollution could bolster competing species, like stringy sargassum, a nonnative macroalgae that Berry said has been found where South Puget Sound bull kelp beds once flourished. — Evan Bush, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019

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