How to Use deep-sea in a Sentence

deep-sea

adjective
  • Aircraft, the navy and deep-sea divers were involved in the effort.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 5 July 2023
  • What would be the long-term effects of deep-sea mining?
    — Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025
  • That first deep-sea mining project didn't quite go as planned.
    — Daniel Ackerman, NPR, 30 June 2025
  • That's a body of water on land, and then offshore is all the oil rig deep-sea diving.
    — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 10 May 2025
  • Scientists have found the world’s largest deep-sea coral reef off the eastern coast of the United States.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Jan. 2024
  • People travel from all over the world to go deep-sea fishing in The Bahamas.
    — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2023
  • Myths about deep-sea monsters can be found in ancient cultures from all across the globe.
    — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 11 July 2023
  • About 300 miles off the coast of Tokyo, researchers aboard a deep-sea submersible sank below the surface of the water.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 July 2025
  • As the contraption sank, a rare deep-sea creature mistook it for a meal.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
  • Sperm whales are massive deep-sea predators with a gray body, pointed teeth and a block-like head.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But hearing them end to end is like a deep-sea dive into Debussy’s mind.
    — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The two were going to light out from Half Moon Bay on Thursday morning to hunt some deep-sea giants for most of the day.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The creature belongs to a genus of giant isopods found in abundance in deep-sea waters.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2025
  • With deep-sea mining on the horizon, some researchers say Norway would be wise to look to its own past.
    — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2025
  • There’s also a poseable crab that comes complete with a treasure chest and a deep-sea angler fish.
    — Alida Nugent, Peoplemag, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The town is known for its deep-sea fishing charters, boat cruises and casino boats.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 26 May 2025
  • The researchers used landers that carried dead fish as bait; deep-sea crustaceans ate the bait, and the snailfish came to eat the crustaceans.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The Coast Guard is also using commercial deep-sea vessels to scour the area.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 June 2023
  • Stroll along the picturesque docks on the Calabash River or join a deep-sea fishing tour to catch your own dinner.
    — Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Even the most mundane moments are riveting in the new deep-sea drama film Last Breath.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s green light to deep-sea mining of those elements is a sign the U.S. is playing catch-up with China.
    — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The creatures include everything from a squat lobster to a deep-sea limpet.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The creatures include everything from a squat lobster to a deep-sea limpet.
    — Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
  • And that’s just what’s been discovered so far in the ocean’s biggest hot spot for future deep-sea mining.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 26 May 2023
  • Two rare deep-sea whales recently washed up on Ireland’s coast.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 30 July 2025
  • It is built for conducting deep-sea exploration and is the mother ship of two types of submersibles.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The fish in question was a type of tilefish, deep-sea dwellers found in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The Metals Company’s audacious gambit may have opened the door to deep-sea mining for the first time.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Though the area looks like a deep-sea Barbie wonderland to human eyes, these creatures are actually clad in stealthy camouflage.
    — Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Endless Ocean is meant to be themed to a deep-sea exploration station on the sea bed but actually resembles the set of a space station with sleek grey walls and touch screen consoles showing information about marine life.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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