How to Use seiche in a Sentence

seiche

noun
  • The oscillation of a standing wave is a seiche.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But Marsalek said a seiche is not expected with the current weather.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Lake Erie is known for seiches, according to the weather service.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Last year, a seiche uncovered the remnants of an apparent shipwreck on the Ohio side of Lake Erie.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The sloshing water within the fjord established a 66-second long-period seiche, a standing wave, that reverberated back and forth for 36 hours.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 10 May 2026
  • In an extreme example in 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot sea wall at Buffalo, New York, and killed 78 people.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Jay Austin, a professor of physics and astronomy with the University of Minnesota-Duluth, has studied water displacement and seiches on the Great Lakes.
    — Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 26 Nov. 2025

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