Below you will find example sentences with "ocean floor". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Ocean Floor in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: ocean
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 8
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.2 words

Words in this phrase

ocean floor

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • ocean can mean: One of the large bodies of water separating the continents. Frequent word
  • floor can mean: The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

on the ocean floor 4× and the ocean floor 1× at the ocean floor 1× below the ocean floor has been 1× beneath the ocean floor 1× form new ocean floor all across 1× freshwater the ocean floor air the 1× from the ocean floor and the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

ben will make 1× dave s an 1× even large submarine 1× experts say the 1× in the early 1× michael eldred director 1×

Common sentence endings:

the ocean floor 8× an ocean floor 1× been one solution 1× coast this summer 1× is nutrient rich 1× mid ocean ridges 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

water 5× deep 4× off 4× coast 3× may 3× life 3× marine 3× landmass 2× steep 2× large 2× air 2× vents 2×

Related phrases

first floor ocean city pacific ocean atlantic ocean ground floor senate floor indian ocean third floor top floor dance floor

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around ocean:

ocean city 20× pacific ocean 20× atlantic ocean 14×

Just before it in the phrase index:

ocean city occurred last occupied west occupied territory occupied territories occupied east

Just after it in the phrase index:

oct file odd numbers odds bet off balls off campus off duty

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

ocean city

Same ending:

first floor ground floor senate floor third floor top floor dance floor

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "ocean floor" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as on the ocean floor, and the ocean floor, water, deep and off stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with first floor, ocean city, pacific ocean, ocean city, pacific ocean and atlantic ocean, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with ocean floor

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

The mesh box experiment showing life travelled beneath the ocean floor. (11 words)

As those above ground mourn their loved ones, the continues on the ocean floor. (14 words)

Ocean hydrates consist of methane—essentially natural gas—trapped in icelike cages called clathrates on the ocean floor. (18 words)

Longer example sentences

In the early 1960s scientists such as Heezen, Hess and Dietz had begun to theorise that mid-ocean ridges mark structurally weak zones where the ocean floor was being ripped in two lengthwise along the ridge crest (see the previous paragraph). (41 words)

Even large submarine eruptions may not disturb the ocean surface due to the rapid cooling effect and increased buoyancy of water (as compared to air) which often causes volcanic vents to form steep pillars on the ocean floor. (38 words)

This process, at first denominated the "conveyer belt hypothesis" and later called seafloor spreading, operating over many millions of years continues to form new ocean floor all across the 50,000 km-long system of mid-ocean ridges. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

Ocean floor material is relatively dense; when it strikes the lighter granite of the Mexican landmass, the ocean floor is forced under the landmass, creating the deep Middle America Trench that lies off Mexico's southern coast.

Michael Eldred, director of heat exchange research at Makai Ocean Engineering, said the advantage of the location off Keāhole Point is its steep drop to the ocean floor providing access to cold water that is nutrient-rich.

Ocean hydrates consist of methane—essentially natural gas—trapped in icelike cages called clathrates on the ocean floor.

Even large submarine eruptions may not disturb the ocean surface due to the rapid cooling effect and increased buoyancy of water (as compared to air) which often causes volcanic vents to form steep pillars on the ocean floor.

In the early 1960s scientists such as Heezen, Hess and Dietz had begun to theorise that mid-ocean ridges mark structurally weak zones where the ocean floor was being ripped in two lengthwise along the ridge crest (see the previous paragraph).

The subsurface water ocean of Jupiter 's moon Europa may harbor life, especially at hypothesized hydrothermal vents at the ocean floor.

This process, at first denominated the "conveyer belt hypothesis" and later called seafloor spreading, operating over many millions of years continues to form new ocean floor all across the 50,000 km-long system of mid-ocean ridges.

As those above ground mourn their loved ones, the continues on the ocean floor.

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BEN will make an appearance closer to home, and soon: Graduate students at the University of New Hampshire will use the boat to map the ocean floor off the state’s coast this summer.

But in the coming decades and centuries, this number may increase if the glacier breaks away from the ocean floor and “the cork pops out of the bottle,” so to speak.

Dave’s an overweight diver who likes to plunder the ocean floor by day, and serve his hard-earned gains to the customers of a sushi restaurant by night.

Experts say the ocean floor is a “noisy” place and a potential connection between the banging and the Titan was unlikely.

However, if you listened deep enough, looked deep enough, it teemed with pearls of wisdom and rough lessons — much like an ocean floor.

Older desalination systems used to harm larger marine life by forcefully pulling it up against intake systems; a technology called —the process of drawing up water through sand from below the ocean floor—has been one solution.

Other habitats they looked at include marine, freshwater, the ocean floor, air, the built environment and host organisms such as humans.

Scientists researching humpback whales off of Australia’s Gold Coast found that the large marine mammals were drawn to a sandy, shallow area of the ocean floor where they appeared to be removing dead skin.

The mesh box experiment showing life travelled beneath the ocean floor.

These nematodes, also known as roundworms, are incredibly common in our world today, thriving in various environments such as soil, water, and the ocean floor.

They range from giant whales to dolphins for catching a ride on, and even small creatures in nooks and crannies on the ocean floor.

They were able to determine that a deep-sea thermal springs just beneath the crevices of the site provided warmth otherwise unavailable at the depths of the ocean floor.

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