How to Use sea fan in a Sentence
sea fan
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Soft corals include species like the purple sea fan or branching corals without an outer skeleton.
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Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
16 Oct. 2025
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And guests snorkel along reefs coated with purple sea fans, roamed by schools of teal parrotfish, eagle rays, and angelfish.
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Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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Beneath the surface, angelfish shimmer and stingrays glide over kaleidoscopic reefs, while sea fans sway in the gentle current.
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Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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In Ocho Rios, the vast fringing reef shelf has drop-offs on the northern side perfect for spotting diverse soft and hard corals like staghorn, sea fan and brain coral.
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Adrienne Jordan,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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There are sea fans, sea whips and other species, some of which will eventually grow as big as 6 feet tall when they're transplanted onto a major new project that's beginning to take shape in the Atlantic Ocean near Miami Beach.
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Greg Allen,
NPR,
21 Oct. 2025
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