How to Use sea level in a Sentence

sea level

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  • The front of our house is about 400 feet above sea level.
    — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 26 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • Front Street may need to be set back from the ocean due to rising sea levels.
    — Sara Kehaulani Goo, Axios, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Half of the sea level rise is because the oceans are getting warmer.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2022
  • 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
  • These glaciers make up about 12% of the entire ice sheet and hold enough ice to raise sea levels by about 4.3 feet.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Hills are scarce—the country’s highest point is just 1,000 feet above sea level—and caves are even scarcer.
    — Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
  • Ouray is 7,800 feet above sea level at the base of the San Juan Mountains in south-central Colorado.
    — James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Then in 2021, rain fell at the summit of Greenland – roughly two miles above sea level – for the first time on record.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Over time, that land became low enough to fall below sea level, and water from the oceans came in on top of it.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • Along with the winds and waves, sea level rise has also contributed to the erosion.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Nearly a foot of sea level rise is expected over the next 30 years.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The first floor was twelve feet above sea level, and the house had a concrete elevator shaft.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The melting ice has in turn contributed to sea level rise.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The topo map will show the contour elevations of land above sea level.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The new report finds that sea level rise fueled by climate change is the biggest risk.
    — Julia Simon, NPR, 22 May 2024
  • Lake Grapevine is at about 533 feet above sea level, above the low threshold but below its normal depth.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
  • According to a report from the city, the Bellwether District is at risk of up to 4 feet of flooding and up to 6 feet of sea level rise.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Their home is 15 feet above sea level, and storm surge came right up to their front door before receding.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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 temperatures in Guadalajara would have been milder, but the city is nearly a mile above sea level.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • 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
  • Spring is go time for climbers who hope to summit Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak above sea level.
    — Alton C. Byers, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
  • This includes things like the vast outdoor plazas Lu showed in his video, which can appear like the ground floor but are actually many feet above sea level.
    — Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024

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