How to Use benthic in a Sentence

benthic

adjective

• But benthic dwellers are difficult to haul up to the surface alive, let alone chipper.
  — Sabrina Imbler, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• Gray whales feed on benthic amphipods crustaceans, which feed on algae grown under sea ice.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• The current swept along crabs and shrimp and maybe a few marine worms and other benthic life unable to fight the flow.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2018
• This kills off the benthic life as well as the more commercially valuable crabs and finfish.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2025
• Pelagic species had shifted poleward in the northern hemisphere more than benthic.
  — Disha Shetty, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• Fuchs knew benthic species tend to release their tiny larvae when the water warms to a certain temperature.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2020
• The scientists noticed a drop in their prey, such as small pelagic fishes in the case of seals and smaller benthic sharks in the case of sevengill sharks.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2025
• Other species, like benthic (bottom-dwelling) sharks, have rougher or more robust denticles designed to resist wear as the shark brushes along the sea floor.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
• The overpopulation theory Before their journey south, gray whales feed on sea bugs at the bottom of the ocean in what is known as the benthic zone.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• And, like the small miracle of any benthic shine found in sandy human hands, Frame’s prolific œuvre very nearly didn’t exist for us, but for drastic, tidal chance.
  — Audrey Wollen, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2025
• These farms also provide critical shading that results in a cooling effect on the benthic communities below.
  — Bill Frist, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Warmer temperatures and retreating ice sheets harm benthic habitats and the creatures within (PDF) that the gray whales eat.
  — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz, 20 July 2019
• As temperatures increased, the swimming performance of sharks also improved, with pelagic species capable of higher speeds than benthic ones.
  — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• Monk seals dine on nearly the entire buffet of foods offered in the mid-Pacific Ocean, from octopus to eel to lobster to benthic fish, any of which could be infected.
  — Kim Steutermann Rogers, Smithsonian, 9 July 2018
• Sweetman argues that his lander’s benthic chamber — a device used to measure oxygen exchange in seafloor sediment — has enough fail-safe features to ensure the experiments weren’t fouled by stowaway air bubbles.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
• But the pair were also more than happy to pan through the benthic underside of Hollywood, trolling Craigslist for walk-ons who could provide the unsteady, amateurish tone the show relied on in a truly fluent way.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 3 Aug. 2021
• Since their usual food source, various benthic prey, was available for the birds at the time, Will cited the potential for another unknown factor that was preventing murres specifically from catching their prey.
  — Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2021
• In Tokyo, Takazawa works as a researcher at an environmental research company, studying water, plankton, benthic organisms and fish.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 28 July 2023
• The Arctic and sub-Arctic waters are nutrient-rich during the summer, which supports booming populations of amphipods and other benthic organisms.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Researchers have now recognized the underwater structure as a pillar of marine life in the benthic zone, the lowest ecological region of a body of water, where species are specially equipped to survive extreme living conditions.
  — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
• According to the team, assessing a marine environment from a predator’s perspective instead of a human’s can improve our understanding of the benthic environment and develop a more complete map of the seabed.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
• Recognizable by their strong pharyngeal teeth used to crush mollusc shells, black carps can significantly impact local ecosystems by feeding on mussels and snails, and competing with other native benthic fishes like smallmouth buffalo.
  — Cheyenne Derksen, Oklahoman, 18 Mar. 2026
• Indicators include the team’s biodiversity surveys of dragonfly larvae and other benthic macroinvertebrates sensitive to water quality.
  — Dustin Renwick, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• Supporting future development Project leaders described Expedition 7 as one of the most productive benthic baseline campaigns completed within the deep-sea minerals sector.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026
• Many benthic animals overcome these limitations using legged locomotion and have different hydrodynamic profiles dictated by different body morphologies.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2019