Want to use Reef correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like ridge or lower.
Reef in a sentence
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Reef meaning
- A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.
- A large vein of auriferous quartz; hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore.
Example sentences (20)
Diamond hole GLA001 was drilled to the west and appears to have drilled obliquely down a steeply west dipping reef.
Teams of divers surveyed 287 reef sites, but Warham could not say immediately whether Borck Creek was one of them.
The coral is harvested at various sites along the more than 300 kilometre-long reef based on water temperature.
The Coral Reef Swim attracts fitness swimmers competing for fun, as well as world-class, open-water athletes.
He’s part of a group of US Army veterans wounded in combat who are planting coral in a reef off the southern tip of Florida.
The group came up with a dozen potential golden spike sites, including one on Flinders Reef in Australia.
Marine Resources says the project was intended to test reef material, not grow large amounts of oysters.
Along the way, he enlists the help of amnesiac blue reef fish Dorey, along with a motley crew of sea creatures to help find Nemo.
The Center also aims to preserve a natural environment by introducing reef cleaners such as fish, snails, crabs, and sea urchins.
Sedimentation can obstruct sunlight and smother the tiny animals who make up a coral reef, ultimately harming its growth and health.
Many of the species caught in these fisheries, like butterfly rays, wedgefish, and reef sharks, are already threatened with extinction.
After approximately one mile on Leeds Reef, the trail drops into a draw as it approaches the White Reef Trail junction.
The bipartisan Coral Reef Conservation Act reauthorized and modernized the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000.
The Great Barrier Reef’s managers plan to extend aerial and in-water surveys across the entire reef over the coming weeks.
Last week, the USS Milius sailed near one of the most important man-made and Chinese controlled islands in the South China Sea, Mischief Reef.
The most important group to be affected by this extinction event were the reef-builders of the great Devonian reef-systems.
Once or twice, the vessel nearly smashed into a reef, which might have ended our story.
Divers or remote-operated vehicles would then place the skeletons on a damaged reef or where a new reef was being assembled.
One of the most dramatic is the Great Barrier Reef off northeastern Australia with chains of reef patches.
Abalone have been farmed on an artificial reef consuming seaweed which grows naturally on the reef units.
Common combinations with reef
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- coral reef 32×
- the reef 31×
- barrier reef 31×
- reef is 13×
- reef in 10×
- reef and 9×
- and reef 6×
- of reef 5×
- reef that 5×
- reef of 4×
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