How to Use seabed in a Sentence

seabed

noun
  • Fast ice refers to sea ice attached to the coast or seabed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In calm weather, the gates fill with water and sit on the seabed.
    — Marcello Rossi, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The carbon and its consumers will remain at the seabed for years to come.
    — Ben Guarino, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Trace amounts have been found in seabed crusts, Antarctic snow, and lunar soil.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
  • Many of these critical minerals are found in the deep seabed.
    — Michael W. Lodge, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Drop stones are rocks that land on the seabed, sometimes with so much force that the sediment deforms.
    — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The rays glide to the seabed and wait as a shark approaches, then loses interest and swims away.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2018
  • Along its edge was a shallow seabed teeming with strange, alien-like creatures — the first life forms on our planet.
    — Justin Meneguzzi, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2024
  • The exceptions are sea cucumbers and some species that live buried beneath the seabed.
    — Samuel Zamora, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
  • Gluing oneself to the seabed is one way of accomplishing this.
    — Scientific American Blog Network, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Norway voted last year to open part of its Arctic seabed to deep-sea mining but has since paused the project.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • But scientists said that the main problem was underwater and that there was no way to clean the seabed.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2021
  • Lying dormant on the seabed, the hollow barriers are filled with water to weigh them down.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Trawl nets -- large nets that are dragged along the seabed, catching everything in their path -- are the worst offenders.
    — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 6 June 2019
  • The new seabed then pushes away the existing, denser rock at the ridge equally in both directions.
    — Meg Neal, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Although the boat’s stern is broken, its bow remains in place, poking up around 16 feet above the seabed.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The ships slowly dragged the towfish through the ocean just above the seabed, hoping the equipment would detect some trace of the plane.
    — Kristen Gelineau, Orange County Register, 17 Jan. 2017
  • The creature's former habitat, a shallow seabed, is now on a mountain in Oman.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 26 May 2020
  • The movable flood gates are attached by hinges to cement blocks on the seabed along three openings from the sea into the lagoon.
    — Greg Norman | Fox News, Fox News, 11 July 2020
  • Submarines may already be scouring the seabed near the Andaman islands, some sources says.
    — Barbara Peterson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2014
  • Ask him about being pinned to the seabed by debris from the Titanic and you might be put off submarines for life.
    — Alex Moore, Robb Report, 24 July 2021
  • As Huber notes, the group’s sonar equipment often detects strange objects on the seabed.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2020
  • All of the sculptures are fixed to the seabed and made from specialized materials to promote coral life.
    — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 24 Sep. 2020
  • All the rams, seven of the helmets, and six complete amphorae have since been recovered (the rest are still on the seabed).
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The Nord Stream pipelines are laid mostly along the seabed, and each is more than 750 miles long.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The ship's ram as it was found on the seabed off Sicily at a depth of nearly 90 m, covered in marine life.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Oil is also tucked beneath the rolling dunes of the Empty Quarter and the seabed of the Gulf.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • In this case, the crustacean—which mostly keeps to the seabed—buries itself beneath the sand, with just its eyes protruding from the mucky depths.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • To begin construction, the male pushes its belly on the sandy seabed to make a central spot in the future circle.
    — New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2026
  • One of them is the lack of detailed geological research on the atoll and its surrounding seabed.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 Mar. 2026

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