How to Use seawater in a Sentence

seawater

noun

• The city was drenched with rain, but hardly a drop of seawater.
  — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Since seawater contains a high amount of salt, so does sea salt spray.
  — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• Gulping up a mouthful of saline seawater can be gross, but how did all that salt get there in the first place?
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
• Many of the watches found on the bodies registered times around 5:50 p.m., when the seawater or oil stopped them.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• In Golovin, streets were flooded with seawater and sewage.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• More than half its body rose straight from the water, then crashed down in a crescendo of spraying seawater.
  — Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• Last year, the seawater pushed upriver for longer, around five months.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave and Eraldo Peres, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2022
• As a result, seawater in this crevasse is freezing at the top, but melting at the opening.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• At these sites, seawater percolates through the cracks in the ocean floor, picking up minerals along the way.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• Idalia's storm surges, for example, forced the salty seawater onto land, where it was met with heavy rain.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Then it will be diluted in seawater 100 to 1 before it's released in the ocean.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
• And the water level would rise to the point where seawater was covering the players' mouths and going up their noses.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 1 Dec. 2022
• Afterwards, guests can take a dip in the Blue Hole seawater hydrotherapy pool, the largest of its kind in the Maldives.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• After a bracing swim, the comforts (restaurant, bar, and seawater hot tub) are close by.
  — Michelle Tchea, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2024
• Trawling is adding still more CO2 to seawater, and with it more acidity.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
• The crew lost control of the ship, and to exacerbate the sinking, seawater began leaking on the vessel.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2022
• His staff pumps in large amounts of seawater, adjusts the lights in the room to account for day and night, and tries to make the cephalopods’ tanks simulate their natural habitats.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• The avalanche of seawater was truly vast, equal to about one-third of the average flow of the Amazon River, by far the highest-volume river on earth.
  — Longreads, 2 Nov. 2022
• One idea is to reduce the resistance between the ship’s hull and seawater by using air bubbles.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
• That's how dolphins B (collected in the 1980s in the Gulf of Mexico) and T captured their fish in the seawater pool, using a sideswipe motion of the head.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 1 Jan. 2023
• The same effect was not observed above the ocean since seawater does not cool down fast enough for cumulus clouds to dissipate.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024
• Months later, the USS Freedom saw its engine destroyed by a seawater leak.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2023
• She’s been trapped in Miami over fifty years, knows all too well its sunrises and sunsets and storms and dirty seawater.
  — David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
• One idea for stashing more carbon in seawater involves the creation of huge offshore kelp farms.
  — Eric Niiler, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• In low-lying coastal areas, seawater increasingly fills the streets at high tide, even on days with no rain.
  — Susan Joy Hassol, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• The company adds minerals to bring the acidic seawater back to a normal pH, then releases it into the ocean.
  — Time, 28 June 2023
• Under tremendous pressure, the rocks above began to crack, allowing the cold seawater to seep in.
  — WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
• An infection can occur when a small lesion in the skin is exposed to the bacteria in seawater.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 23 Mar. 2023
• The current also divides the seawater into basic and acidic streams.
  — Popular Science, 29 Nov. 2023
• That could include other techniques to pull CO2 from the air, including adding crushed rocks to soil and zapping seawater.
  — Nadia Lopez, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024