How to Use sea level in a Sentence

sea level

noun

• But Smith’s group will play at (or near) sea level for the rest of the season.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Narayani flows through the city of Pokhara, nestled in a valley less than 3,000 feet above sea level.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 6 July 2023
• To try to fathom it, picture trekking from sea level to the top of the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest.
  — Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The stone wall remained hidden for about the last 8,500 years when it was submerged due to sea level rise.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• Most of the Maldives, for instance, lies just a meter above sea level.
  — Sara Clemence, The Atlantic, 3 July 2023
• This 200-mile stretch of coastline has one of the highest rates of erosion and sea level rise in New Zealand.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
• These phenomena can cause sea levels to rise near the ice sheets and fall in the mid-latitudes.
  — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• The melting of glaciers is responsible for more than a fifth of global sea level rise.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
• The shelf acts like a cork, holding the glacier back on the land and providing an important defense against sea level rise.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• Losing more and more of it could hasten the decline of the continent’s ice, which would add many feet to global sea levels.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
• The glacier contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by several feet or more.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• That lake would have an elevation of around 667 feet above sea level.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 14 July 2023
• It has been found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, thirty-six thousand feet below sea level.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Shepherd's group concludes that ice sheet melting has accounted for about one-fifth of the world's sea level rise since 1992.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Scientists have taken video footage of a fish more than five miles below sea level.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
• But the city-state will have to reinforce and improve those shields as tropical storms increase and sea levels rise.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• By comparison, the pressure at sea level is 1 ATA, or 14.6 psi.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2023
• Sitting 9,350 feet above sea level, Quito is the second-​highest-altitude capital on the planet (the first is La Paz, Bolivia).
  — Ian Volner, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2023
• When standing at sea level, there are 14.7 pounds of pressure pressing down on the human body per square inch, according to NOAA.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 23 June 2023
• The ocean keeps coming because of climate change, sea level rise, nor'easters, hurricanes, et cetera.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• Worldwide, sea levels have risen faster since 1900, putting hundreds of millions of people at risk, the United Nations has said.
  — Michael Casey, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2024
• The park is home to the gorgeous salt flats of Badwater Basin, which mark the lowest elevation point in the United States (282 feet below sea level).
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2023
• The marine ice sheet sits on bedrock below sea level, contains glaciers that flow toward the sea and is surrounded by floating ice shelves.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2023
• New York City is sinking at the same time that sea levels around the world are rising, which could exacerbate flooding concerns for the region.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• This allows the space to join seamlessly with the swim platform, making for a giant party platform at sea level.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2023
• Rewild says 227 acres of new marshland is needed to successfully fight sea level rise.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2023
• The assessment also points out that in the next three decades, scientists expect sea levels along the contiguous US to rise nearly a foot.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
• The soldiers in his unit had been rifling through backpacks left at the bottom of a hill, known to the Americans as Hill 724, named for its elevation above sea level.
  — Megan Burrow and Nhung Nguyen, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
• But when the climate began to shift and the Earth’s temperature dropped—which caused sea levels to plummet—the megalodon might have been simply unable to find enough to eat.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2023
• The female specimen was found in a rainforest habitat about 4,600 feet above sea level.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024