How to Use the seabed in a Sentence

the seabed

noun
  • Aging on the seabed is not a new concept, of course.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Many modern mines instead sit on the seabed.
    — John Femiani, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The cold water then pours over the cataract towards the seabed.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The cables would be weighed down with old train wheels, which would anchor them to the seabed.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
  • About how, close to the coast, it would be buried below the seabed at a depth of two meters.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Search teams scoured the surface of the ocean and the seabed in hopes of finding the vessel.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 22 June 2023
  • In deeper waters, the line is laid directly on the seabed.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Divers will be able to work for hours on the seabed before retiring to the module for meals and rest.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The footage also captured a skate, motionless on the seabed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Glassy, translucent sponges that cling to the seabed like chandeliers flipped upside down.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • Lodge wore a hard-hat with a company logo, and spoke of the need to open up mining on the seabed.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • From the surface back down to the seabed, Romeo and Juliet have switched on their strobe lights.
    — Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • And just locating the drone might not be easy, given that it is likely scattered on the seabed.
    — Lara Jakes Lara Jakes Michael Crowley Nick Cumming-Bruce Helene Cooper Matthew Mpoke Bigg Lara Jakes Anushka Patil Lara Jakes Lara Jakes Andrew Higgins Andrew Higgins Marc Santora Andrew Higgins Valerie Hopkins Nick Cumming-Bruce Nick Cumming-Bruce Valerie Hopkins Valerie Hopkins Marc Santora Eric Schmitt Anushka Patil Carly Olson Valerie Hopkins Eric Schmitt Eric Schmitt Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Hektoria rests on an ice plain, where sliding ice glides over flat sediment on the seabed.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • These mines are most effective in shallow water, where ships pass closer to the seabed.
    — John Femiani, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • At another fisherman’s snag a few miles to the north, the team’s equipment got caught on the seabed.
    — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Wind farm leases on the seabed are contributing to soaring profits.
    — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Mines could be rocket-propelled, cabled or sit on the seabed and be triggered by sound, movement or light.
    — Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • Mines could be rocket-propelled, cabled or sit on the seabed and be triggered by sound, movement or light.
    — ABC News, 23 May 2026
  • Mines could be rocket-propelled, cabled or sit on the seabed and be triggered by sound, movement or light.
    — Emma Burrows, Fortune, 24 May 2026
  • Brandy Melville’s business model is built on churning out cheap items that are destined to line the seabed.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The vessel is lying on its side on the seabed about 164 feet beneath the surface.
    — David Chiu, People.com, 12 May 2025
  • McHale said that the repair crew needs to excavate the seabed floor to locate the cable.
    — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The museum has thousands of fossils found from the seabed in its collection.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Out to the right, a precipitous drop swiftly turned the seabed from sand to grass, a secret grove of turtles.
    — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Divers have to carefully chisel each coral from the seabed by hand and bring it to the surface, which takes a lot of time and labor.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Mar. 2026
  • But most of the seabed lies beneath the High Seas, beyond the control of any country.
    — Daniel Ackerman, NPR, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Deep Energy, a ship that lays pipe on the seabed, has rushed to the scene and sent robots into the water.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2023
  • As the platform moves, these slices are assembled to form a continuous image of the seabed.
    — John Femiani, The Conversation, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The camera also captured a skate, visible in the footage and motionless on the seabed.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2026

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