How to Use seafloor in a Sentence

seafloor

noun
  • To date, about 27% of the seafloor has been mapped.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
  • The seafloor has seen ships powered by sail, steam, or diesel.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • Both species play key roles in ocean food webs, from the surface to the seafloor.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
  • Auctions so far have been for those anchored to the seafloor.
    — Gillian Flaccus, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The seafloor at the base of a blue hole acts like a calendar of past storms.
    — J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022
  • To hunt, these creatures likely stood on the seafloor, heads held aloft.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Though the platforms will float, they still must be tethered to the seafloor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The rest of the ship appears to be buried deep in mud on the seafloor, researchers say.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 20 June 2024
  • This cap prevents the less dense fresh water from rising up to the seafloor.
    — Rob L. Evans, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
  • Over three weeks and dozens of dives, these sedan-length submersibles surveyed and filmed the seafloor.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Crabs scuttle across the seafloor as water ripples around your feet.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Lumpfish are solitary creatures that spend most of their lives on the seafloor.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2022
  • There are no high-resolution maps of the seafloor here.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 26 May 2026
  • If and when companies will be able to get machines on the seafloor is far from clear.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
  • The nodules sit on top of the seafloor, so there is no drilling or digging needed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Instead, the seafloor was full in strange crabs and shrimp—all covered with tumors.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Greater mass could mean a large volcanic explosion when that part of the seafloor was formed.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The drill bit became lodged and the drill pipe snapped 50 feet below the seafloor.
    — oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2020
  • In its place urchin barrens now carpet the seafloor; a spiny, silent landscape stripped of life.
    — Tatjana Baleta, Time, 28 May 2026
  • The net was pulled along the sandy bottom, running over rocks jutting out from the soft seafloor.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At 82 feet down, sunrays shimmer off the seafloor and the wreck swarms with fish and divers.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The pipeline was dragged along the seafloor as much as 105 feet, Neubauer said.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2021
  • Cold seeps are areas where methane and chemicals leak from the seafloor.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Feb. 2026
  • This sinkhole is a giant among dozens of pockmarks the researchers found on the seafloor.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Both Nord Streams are composed of two strands of pipe running along the seafloor.
    — Melissa Eddy, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Tests there have involved suctioning nodules from the seafloor to ships above.
    — Leonardo MacElloni, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Along most of the ridge, molten lava pours out onto the seafloor, cools, and is then pulled away from the seam in the crust.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Seawater is drawn from the ocean through intake pipes set out in the open ocean or below the seafloor.
    — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
  • The seafloor carpeted in ghostly skeletons of dead coral reefs.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The pressure on the seafloor exceeds 6,000 lbs.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026

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