How to Use oceanic in a Sentence

oceanic

adjective
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  • Cameron said that the next Avatar film will be much more oceanic than the last.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The area where the sharks flock to was referred to as the oceanic version of the Sahara desert.
    — Edmund Demarche, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
  • The oceanic abyss is home to some of the gnarliest creatures on Earth.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2020
  • Sea turtles and mammals are near the top of the oceanic food chain.
    — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The oceanic dolphin species can grow to around 20 feet.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The shelf ends at a steep slope that transitions sharply to deep oceanic seafloor.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • At stake is the health of our oceanic ecosystems, where cetaceans play a role as top predators.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Pilot whales are a species of oceanic dolphins that grow up to 23 feet and can weigh up to three tonnes.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Paris Design Week, where the Maison&Objet fair and the city’s design scene were awash in oceanic motifs.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The new Out of the Blue line pays homage to the late, great Jean Schlumberger and his legendary oceanic creations.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 June 2023
  • By then, dry air and strong wind shear prevailed over the oceanic regions where storms form.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Bear with me: The oceanic heat has caused the Atlantic hurricane season to get off to a record-fast start.
    — National Geographic, 22 July 2020
  • His hair is blond, shoulder length, pin straight, and parted in the middle, and his eyes are an oceanic blue.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Even with over 536 species of these oceanic apex predators, there is one shark that beats all others in terms of its size.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • But it’s the oceanic setting of the Metkayina that provides the sequel with its essence.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In this case, shrimp bring a welcome dose of oceanic refreshment to the sweet party.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 31 July 2019
  • In the Mariana Trench, the whole arc is developed in oceanic crust.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Many if not most of the sellers are less constrained by the volume of offshore goods in long oceanic queues off both coasts.
    — Sanford Stein, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Fittingly enough, some seaweed snacks, to help keep you in an oceanic state of mind.
    — Piers Marchant, Arkansas Online, 21 May 2021
  • They’re forced to leave the forest and hide out in an oceanic village to escape the humans hunting them down.
    — Daron James, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The team used oceanic robots, which look like torpedoes, off the coast of northern Canada and mapped the seafloor with sonar.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The Hemons hail from a part of Europe that has long been overwhelmed by the oceanic movements of empires and great powers.
    — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 6 June 2019
  • Towns and cities on the Atlantic coast got some respite early Tuesday, when a cool oceanic air mass arrived from the west overnight.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 19 July 2022
  • Sightings of this oceanic creature are so rare that this is the first time it has been spotted in the Pacific Ocean.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 28 July 2022
  • More than half of oceanic shark species are endangered.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 May 2021
  • In recent years his work took on oceanic themes, sometimes with a dystopian twist.
    — Jamie Brisick, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2022
  • According to Rhy, the dress was inspired by oceanic elements and the great white shark.
    — Jamila Stewart, Essence, 1 July 2022
  • Any disruption of the AMOC would disrupt the great oceanic transfer of energy and, with that, the climate.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Hurricanes feast on oceanic heat and turn it into the energy of their winds.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024

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