How to Use sargassum in a Sentence

sargassum

noun

• In this case, it's made from a type of brown algae, a seaweed known as sargassum.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• Researchers think the Gulf will start to see more sargassum in the coming weeks.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
• Areas that take hours to clean end up are covered in sargassum only hours later.
  — Andrea Navarro, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
• The sargassum smells like rotten eggs, attracts insects and hurts tourism.
  — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2022
• The tricky part is that floating sargassum often sinks after a little while.
  — WIRED, 23 June 2023
• Someday maybe all those tons of sargassum might be worth their weight in, if not gold, maybe fertilizer.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• But with no sense of when the onslaught of the algae, known as sargassum, will end, others are much more worried.
  — Andrea Navarro, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2019
• The study says sargassum, which turns clear sea water brown, has been an issue since 2011.
  — Marcus Lim, orlandosentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• This sargassum, or the stinky seaweed that piles up on shore, can last from April to October.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 9 June 2024
• Not so happy are people trying to swim around the stuff or breathing in the fetid aroma of drying mounds of sargassum.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
• Pszonowsky also said there haven’t been widespread reports of sargassum seaweed on beaches.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2019
• But the sargassum is now home to objects wholly unnatural too.
  — Arwa Damon, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• The brown seaweed that washes up on Florida beaches is known as sargassum.
  — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025
• Some beaches in Mexico are bracing to receive as much as three feet of sargassum in the coming weeks.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• Scientists have been tracking the Atlantic sargassum raft for years.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2023
• The hatchlings then drift in the open ocean, clinging to floating sargassum and feeding on small organisms found in the seaweed.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2025
• 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
• And because the western coast of the island is protected, expect calm, clear water and no sargassum.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2023
• Unlike other types of seaweed, sargassum floats on the open ocean and reproduces on the water’s surface.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• In the Pacific, mats of kelp that breaks free inshore and float in knotted kelp paddies have the same effect as sargassum mats.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
• Part of the problem now is that the amount of sargassum in the oceans has increased dramatically in the last 15 years or so.
  — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 17 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Not only were they found to be eating sargassum, a type of floating brown algae, but these plants were contributing to their energy and growth.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
• Scientists estimate there’s more than 10 million metric tons of sargassum in the belt this year.
  — Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some places, such as Miami Beach, have had so much sargassum at times that swimmers are blocked from entering the water.
  — Marcus Lim, orlandosentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• Some places, such as beaches in South Florida, have had so much sargassum at times that swimmers are blocked from entering the water.
  — Marcus Lim, sun-sentinel.com, 5 July 2019
• Giant mounds of sargassum have already caused headaches in parts of Mexico and South Florida this year.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 10 June 2023
• The sargassum is mixed with organic materials like clay and baked in the sun, and it's estimated these blocks will last 120 years.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 27 Apr. 2023
• The report said that during the last week of December, small amounts of sargassum had already reached the Lesser Antilles.
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2025
• An overabundance of sargassum was blamed for the recent deaths of thousands of fish at the French Caribbean island of Martinique.
  — DÁnica Coto, Sun Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2022