How to Use coral in a Sentence

coral

noun
  • It's made from coral, from the sea.
    — Jenna Deangelis, CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Find it in navy, coral, and a breezy stripe.
    — Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
  • Find it in navy, coral, and a breezy stripe.
    — Tanya Sharma, PEOPLE, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Just three weeks ago, the coral was smaller than a grain of rice.
    — WIRED, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Eight shades suit a range of skin tones, from soft cool pinks to warm peachy corals.
    — Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 10 May 2026
  • Are there even enough corals to make a group of colors all called coral?
    — Kory Stamper, Longreads, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Sage, navy, soft black and coral are all strong choices right now.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Hawaii is one of the places on earth that would feel the loss of live coral the most.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 21 July 2023
  • In the last three years, roughly half of the reef’s corals have died.
    — National Geographic, 7 May 2018
  • In most of the world’s oceans, such extremes would be lethal to coral.
    — Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 17 Apr. 2026
  • His charges are a type of soft coral called gorgonians.
    — Greg Allen, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Overall, corals are vital to the health of the oceans.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
  • It also is known as the sand-dwelling purple coral.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • On short square nails, coral feels graphic and modern.
    — Colleen Sullivan, InStyle, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Because the corals no longer act as a buffer as those waves come in.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2023
  • There are more than 1,500 species of corals around the world.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Without them, corals are ghostly white and bleached.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The coral, now bleached, is alive, but slowly starving.
    — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Philips said his team swam around looking for coral on the verge of spawning.
    — CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The sand has been tinted pink from the coral on the beach and in the water.
    — Roger Sands, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Here, bright blues and shades of coral keep the living room lively and fun.
    — Grace Gallagher, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The pale coral on the coffered ceiling is a nod to the house's front door.
    — Emma Bazilian, House Beautiful, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Her hair was styled with corals, pearls, and feathers, and her crown was placed on her head.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Just a few feet away, a chunk of ancient coral looms over the eroded beach path.
    — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Get it in a creamy yellow, coral pink, or bright white to add some spring fun to your wardrobe.
    — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Heat stress that lasts more than a few weeks can lead the coral to die of starvation.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 May 2022
  • The water got so hot, so fast that corals cooked to death in a matter of days.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • By this time the waves had picked up and the kayak was getting near some shallow coral.
    — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
  • The coral is at a level of preservation that is unique in the world.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • These are regions of the ocean that are home to unusual sets of coral.
    — WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022

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