How to Use reef in a Sentence

reef

noun

• Dive or snorkel around Bayahibe’s reefs.
  — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2025
• Then my toe hit the outer reef.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Healthy sharks are tightly linked to healthy reefs.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Angelfish and schools of blue tang dashed through the reefs along the edge.
  — Hannah Singleton, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 May 2026
• Dive and snorkel trips are the best way to soak up the reef's beauty.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2026
• There are no crowds and very few clocks—just water, reef, and sky.
  — Desiree Norman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2025
• About a quarter of all ocean species depend on reefs.
  — Cassie Martinez, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
• A lot of boats floated out of the harbor that were stuck on the reef.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• Somewhere in the desert, nighthawks are rising from reefs of blood-red clouds.
  — Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• And Laguna has rocky reefs and kelp beds.
  — Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2025
• The reef covers much of the bay, so there are no waves to throw your board off balance.
  — Brittany Loggins, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
• Deep reefs cover more of the ocean floor than tropical reefs.
  — Christina Larson, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
• The grim news comes despite other signs of hope at the region’s reefs.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• Swim or snorkel around the moat to spot marine life, such as nurse sharks, hogfish or reef squid.
  — Lauren David, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
• Now the reef just needs to keep up the good work for another 27 years.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2024
• The big difference with wild oysters is their reefs.
  — Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 9 June 2026
• So far, the researchers noted that heat stress does not appear even across the reef.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
• During my visit there were 33 coral frames that had been set up on the reef.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
• Pasamayo is home to consistent, crystal-clear waves that break on the reef all year long.
  — Sabrina Weiss, The Dial, 23 Sep. 2025
• Wildfires, floods, melting ice caps, heat waves, the bleaching of ocean reefs.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
• This would eventually build up sand and sea life around it and become a reef.
  — Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
• The tide eventually leads us to customs and its reef of tiny glass booths.
  — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
• Oysters have grown in that spot before, and there are oyster reefs nearby.
  — Ike Morgan | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• Pineapples, manatees, reefs so thick with fish that boats could barely row to shore.
  — Carina Del Valle Schorske, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
• That logic, alas, runs aground on the reef of reality.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• While some species may be tucked away in unexplored reefs, others may be hidden in plain sight.
  — Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Stretching over an enormous area, it is made up of thousands of reefs, islands, and cays.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
• The planters are pockmarked and rough-cut; etched and grooved to mimic oyster reefs and mangrove roots.
  — Nathan Rott, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026
• The reef is pristine, uncrowded, and easy to access.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2025
• The other person that was in the water at the time revealed that the shark was a six-foot long reef shark.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025