Explore Pelagic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like oceanic or water. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Pelagic in a sentence
Pelagic meaning
- Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
- Of or pertaining to oceans.
Using Pelagic
- The main meaning on this page is: Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters. | Of or pertaining to oceans.
- Useful related words include: oceanic, body of water, water.
- In the example corpus, pelagic often appears in combinations such as: are pelagic, pelagic and, for pelagic.
Context around Pelagic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pelagic
- In this selection, "pelagic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, see, small, larger, fish, species and seabirds stand out and add context to how "pelagic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include deterioration of pelagic and benthic and divided into pelagic and demersal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pelagic" sits close to words such as abad, abovementioned and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pelagic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In pelagic species this tissue is gelatinous and buoyant. (9 words)
These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. (12 words)
Pelagic landings are also up by 6,496 tonnes over the same period. (13 words)
The trawler when inspected by a joint team from the Fisheries Enforcement Unit, Ghana Navy, Marine Police and the Ghana Maritime Authority had hundreds of slabs of frozen mixed small pelagic fish species known to be below the minimum landing size. (41 words)
If the EU refuses to give up any of its quota and attempts to catch it outside UK waters, this would translate into a 60% overall increase in trawling for pelagic fish such as herring, mackerel and sprats. (38 words)
Pollution is widespread and deterioration of pelagic and benthic habitat quality has occurred, and harmful algal blooms frequently occur. citation Invasion of introduced species are having a detrimental effect on the Yellow Sea environment. (34 words)
Example sentences (19)
A second mission of the Odysseus 6K ROV began late Friday morning to continue searching and mapping efforts, said Jeff Mahoney, spokesperson for Pelagic Research Services, a company that specializes in ocean expedition.
My friend Steve Dubois and I took a special trip to Bass Rock from North Burwick to see pelagic birds.
Pelagic landings are also up by 6,496 tonnes over the same period.
If the EU refuses to give up any of its quota and attempts to catch it outside UK waters, this would translate into a 60% overall increase in trawling for pelagic fish such as herring, mackerel and sprats.
The trawler when inspected by a joint team from the Fisheries Enforcement Unit, Ghana Navy, Marine Police and the Ghana Maritime Authority had hundreds of slabs of frozen mixed small pelagic fish species known to be below the minimum landing size.
Because their habitat is the murky depths of the ocean’s pelagic zone, the squids can hardly see anything.
Ecology Scientists have long debated whether the agnostids lived a pelagic or a benthic lifestyle.
If the phytoplankton is consumed by other components of the pelagic ecosystem, most of the carbon remains in the upper strata.
In pelagic species this tissue is gelatinous and buoyant.
In the pelagic chaetonotid genus Stylochaeta, however, movement proceeds in jerks as the long, muscle-activated spines are forced rhythmically towards the side of the body.
Many larger, pelagic species, such as the mackerel sharks (Lamnidae) and the thresher sharks (Alopiidae), no longer possess them.
Most Charadriiformes live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals; however, some are pelagic (seabirds), some occupy deserts and a few are found in thick forest.
Open ocean habitats are found in the deep ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf Alternatively, marine habitats can be divided into pelagic and demersal habitats.
Oxygen and sulfur isotope records Baryte with cerussite from Morocco In the deep ocean, away from continental sources of sediment, pelagic baryte precipitates and forms a significant amount of the sediments.
Pollution is widespread and deterioration of pelagic and benthic habitat quality has occurred, and harmful algal blooms frequently occur. citation Invasion of introduced species are having a detrimental effect on the Yellow Sea environment.
Some deep water species are pelagic and can float in the water with webbed papillae forming sails or fins.
Some lakes do not have pelagic forage fish during the period of summer stratification.
That is not the case, because mackerel live in midwater pelagic environments which have no background.
These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water.
Common combinations with pelagic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: