How to Use estuarine in a Sentence

estuarine

adjective

• Warmer water holds less dissolved oxygen, and, all the while, estuarine animals require more oxygen to stay alive.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 1 Dec. 2021
• Avoid exposing open wounds, cuts, or scratches to seawater or estuarine water.
  — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 11 July 2022
• The Weeks Bay Reserve is one of 30 estuarine reserves around the country.
  — Margaret Kates | [email protected], al, 11 July 2022
• Until now, Connecticut was one of the few remaining coastal states without an estuarine reserve system.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 14 Jan. 2022
• Cormorants, Canada geese, and mallards patrol the shores of this estuarine environment, alert for children with telltale bags of bread.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Apr. 2021
• That plant has already exceeded its yearly limits for nutrients like phosphorous, which clog bay ecosystems with algae that robs estuarine life of oxygen.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2022
• Their research elucidates the patterns and processes that shape estuarine and marsh environments.
  — Discover Magazine, 2 June 2017
• Zachary Jud's research on estuarine lionfish is discussed by scientists throughout Florida.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2014
• At one estuarine location, fish survived exposure to salinity fluctuations of ~28 ‰ every 6 h for several days.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 24 July 2014
• Plump mussels plucked from the Rías Baixas (a series of estuarine inlets in Galicia, Spain) are hand-tinned in an escabeche sauce marinade made with extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, paprika and sea salt.
  — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Scale and pattern of broadnose sevengill shark Notorynchus cepedianus movement in estuarine embayments.
  — Alycia Crall, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2017
• The iconic marsh, however, is only one of the Everglades’ several distinct habitats, which also include pine rocklands, tropical hardwood hammocks, mangrove forests and marine and estuarine areas.
  — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
• Lake Maracaibo, spanning some 5,019 square miles in northwestern Venezuela, is an estuarine lake — meaning the fresh water it was filled with thousands of years ago converges with the Caribbean’s salty seawater.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
• Their findings, published in the journal Communications Biology, point to chronic exposure to toxins produced by microorgansims known as cynobacteria—which are frequently found in freshwater, estuarine and marine waters—as a possible trigger.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025