How to Use seafloor in a Sentence

seafloor

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  • The seafloor at the base of a blue hole acts like a calendar of past storms.
    — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022
  • The pipeline was dragged along the seafloor as much as 105 feet, Neubauer said.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The rest of the ship appears to be buried deep in mud on the seafloor, researchers say.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 20 June 2024
  • Mapping the seafloor The oceans cover over 70% of the Earth’s surface.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024
  • The sub sank to the seafloor more than 5,000 feet below; the crew of three escaped safely.
    — Timothy Shank, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The seafloor has seen ships powered by sail, steam, or diesel.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • The field, the area of seafloor strewn with the ship's wreckage, is believed to be about 3 x 5 miles in size.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 13 July 2024
  • The base of the volcano connects to the seafloor in the area, which is 1.2 kilometers (.75 miles) down.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 24 May 2022
  • Auctions so far have been for those anchored to the seafloor.
    — Gillian Flaccus, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • At 82 feet down, sunrays shimmer off the seafloor and the wreck swarms with fish and divers.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2021
  • These vessels are scouring the seafloor for sources of oil.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 3 May 2024
  • Both Nord Streams are composed of two strands of pipe running along the seafloor.
    — Melissa Eddy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Over three weeks and dozens of dives, these sedan-length submersibles surveyed and filmed the seafloor.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2022
  • To hunt, these creatures likely stood on the seafloor, heads held aloft.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • The captain’s son, Kelly Walsh, was the last to wear the timepiece on a trip to the seafloor via the same sub a year later.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The two parts of the famed liner are separated on the seafloor by about 2,600 feet.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • This cap prevents the less dense fresh water from rising up to the seafloor.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • The nodules sit on top of the seafloor, so there is no drilling or digging needed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Cliff height, the strength of the rock, wave action, the slope of the beach and the slope of the seafloor could all factor into a cliff’s stability.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Lumpfish are solitary creatures that spend most of their lives on the seafloor.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • The settlement requires the Navy to place sand at a depth of 4 to 9 inches over 8 total acres on the seafloor.
    — Josh Farley, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
  • More than 4,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, a crack in the seafloor spews gases into the dark abyss.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
  • Many of the fossils were the hollow shells of large deep-sea worms that anchor themselves to the seafloor with pipelike tubes.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Feb. 2022
  • This sinkhole is a giant among dozens of pockmarks the researchers found on the seafloor.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
  • About 45 miles from the volcano, the eruption cut off a seafloor fiber-optic cable.
    — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The latest earthquake struck roughly 13 miles beneath the Aegean seafloor, some nine miles off the shore of Samos.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The same applies to the first 200 nautical miles of the seafloor, the continental shelf.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • On the deep seafloor, rough volcanic terrain harbors corals, sponges and fish.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Both sets of rocks were of the sort that had formed from sediments deposited on shallow coastal seafloors near some of the rare pieces of land.
    — Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
  • At first glance, the mantis shrimp is an unassuming crustacean that spends its days scuttling along the seafloor.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024

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