How to Use seawater in a Sentence

seawater

noun
  • The city was drenched with rain, but hardly a drop of seawater.
    — Emma Bubola Laetitia Vancon, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Researchers have looked to the skies, in seawater and in ice for them.
    — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Since seawater contains a high amount of salt, so does sea salt spray.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
  • These were salt deposits that were left on the ground as the seawater dried up.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2025
  • The landscape was brown and dead, the pines and scrub killed by seawater.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
  • As the soil rolls to the ocean water, the seawater turns a bright shade of red.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • One man lay on his back, thrashing his arms, as seawater splashed in his mouth.
    — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The blast knocked out a crater some 650 feet across that filled with seawater.
    — Fox News, 6 Aug. 2020
  • The starfish were then suspended by these clamps above a glass bowl of seawater.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The foul-smelling mix of seawater and fuel was washing across the deck.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • First the whales gulp vast amounts of seawater into their massive maw.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The seawater cools the lava, which forms a glass that shatters.
    — Jae C. Hong and Audrey McAvoy, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
  • If you're stung, leave the water and rinse the area with seawater rather than fresh water.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
  • Jagged limestone karsts rise from the gray seawater like so many jagged, unbrushed teeth.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Last year, the seawater pushed upriver for longer, around five months.
    — Fabiano Maisonnave and Eraldo Peres, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Gulping up a mouthful of saline seawater can be gross, but how did all that salt get there in the first place?
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Yoon held a glass of seawater that had just run through the desalinator.
    — Ian Mount, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The plan is to split seawater and store hydrogen safely on ships.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025
  • So researcher Justin Voss draped the crates with a tarp soaked in seawater.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Sun Sentinel, 15 July 2024
  • Minutes to hours later, a surge of seawater will swallow the land.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Salt-tolerant greens grow over the seawater tank.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Dec. 2025
  • More than half its body rose straight from the water, then crashed down in a crescendo of spraying seawater.
    — Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Like France, both of these plants draw seawater directly from the coast.
    — Theo Burman shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That means there’s now more seawater in contact with the bottom of the glacier, which means more melting.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
  • At high tide, waves surge through the rocks sending seawater into plumes, sometimes up to fifty feet high.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 Oct. 2025
  • As if the ocean were crashing in through the cracks in the walls, and my lungs were slowly filling with seawater.
    — Shannon Leone Fowler, The Cut, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Alawites trekked for miles to the seashore, bringing home jugs of seawater to fashion salty dough for bread.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Bushels of shrimp and what seemed like barrels of seawater and half-digested food spewed up from the maw of the shark.
    — Donald Millus, Outdoor Life, 3 July 2025
  • Three inches of seawater covered the floors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And a mist of seawater that still lingered in the air after the explosion.
    — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021

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