tidewater
Example Sentences
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As temperatures continue rising around the Antarctic Peninsula, more glaciers are losing their protective ice tongues and becoming tidewater glaciers, meaning their termini rest directly on the seabed.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
Many Antarctic glaciers are tidewater glaciers, meaning they sit on the ocean floor and extend into the sea, where they release icebergs.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
More than 750 tidewater gobies were rescued from a Malibu lagoon scorched by the Palisades fire.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
Less than a week before the trout were evacuated, 760 northern tidewater gobies — tiny endangered fish — were scooped out of the same watershed and transported to aquariums.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025
I wait for hours in the mildewy shed, the tidewater just barely seeping in under the door.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
