How to Use surface wave in a Sentence

surface wave

noun

• Unlike surface waves that break at the coast, these are subsurface shifts in ocean heat that move across thousands of miles.
  — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 1 June 2026
• Though slower, S waves and surface waves cause the most damage due to their intense ground-shaking motion.
  — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
• To test their theory, the team simulated low gravity by generating small surface waves.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
• In addition to longitudinal and transverse waves, a type of wave where each of the particles involved underwent motion in what appeared to be a uniformly circular path ⁠ — a surface wave ⁠ — was discovered.
  — Big Think, 7 May 2026
• The rippling characteristics of water, which were previously thought to be either longitudinal or transverse waves exclusively, were shown to also contain this surface wave component.
  — Big Think, 7 May 2026
• In addition to using the waveguide mode converters for mode-division multiplexing and increasing the capacity of on-chip optical communications channels, the technology could also be used to convert waveguide modes to surface waves.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Apr. 2017