How to Use water column in a Sentence

water column

noun
  • For the deep-dwelling sharks, that meant move up in the water column to a more oxygen-rich zone or die.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 31 July 2024
  • When the fish are up and aggressive, a spread of live bait will keep them high in the water column.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 7 Mar. 2024
  • This has the potential to impact all of the water column, all of the ocean.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The nautilus draws fluid in and out of those chambers to sink or float in the water column.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • These lines are designed to sink to the bottom rather than floating in the water column.
    — Joshua Reed, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2024
  • And that’s just one way microplastics can move up and down the water column and settle in the mud.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2019
  • As the bait slowly sinks through the water column both ends of the stick bait shimmy, driving bass nuts.
    — Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2024
  • When the water is warm, reel quickly and pop the rod tip to get the lure swimming in any part of the water column.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • To focus on the most productive area of the water column, use the adjustable zoom.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • One unanswered question is how mining will impact life in the water column.
    — Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • On bright sunny days, schools of baitfish will move to the top of the water column to feed on phytoplankton.
    — Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Try checking higher in the water column at six- or eight-foot intervals and see if the action changes.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • There, thousands of translucent orbs smaller than peas bob in the water column below the fishing dock.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Tsunami waves involve movement of the entire water column from surface to sea floor.
    — Hannah Parry john Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Sediment plumes in the water column could harm these animals.
    — Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, The Conversation, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Clouds of camouflaging ink squirt out and swirl in the Sundance water column.
    — Robert Baker, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2019
  • In white or silver a grub can represent a baitfish when reeled quickly through the middle of the water column.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Below these icy blocks were layers of stratified water columns at least 39 feet deep.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Some animals may move down the water column to darker, colder waters.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • At one point, this intelligence forms a water column, a kind of tentacle, to explore the ship.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • The two new reefs both occupy a layer of the water column with a low concentration of oxygen.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • One rosette called Frankenstein can measure light’s effect on where zooplankton and fish move to in the water column.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Reel steadily to probe mid-levels, or work it erratically to fool fish through both levels of the water column.
    — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But one member of the team, a trigger-happy meathead, reacts out of fear and mistrust, slamming the door shut on the water column.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • The seafloor destruction also launches plumes of carbon into the water column.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 18 Jan. 2024
  • As a storm moves in, however, the fish will move up in the water column, suspending as shallow as 5 or 10 feet.
    — Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Plus, any impacts in the ocean would enter the water column and possibly damage very large areas up to kilometers away.
    — Susan Lahey, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2023
  • Really giving it a ton of action and letting those tentacles do the work up in the water column seems to generate a lot more bites.
    — Shaye Baker, Outdoor Life, 8 Aug. 2024
  • In the summer as temperatures peak and the water column stabilizes, crappie are found scattered in the weeds.
    — Nicole Stone, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2024
  • Interestingly, smallmouth bass hit any lure at every level of the water column in mid summer.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 23 July 2023

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