Sentence examples for reef from high-quality English sources.

• And bring reef-safe sunscreen only — please.

• A typical coral reef generally faces the open sea.

• One approach is to lower reef temperatures directly.

• Mass bleaching events in 2016 and 2017 hit vast areas of the reef.

• It is also commonly referred to as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef.

• Reef islands may occur in isolation or in a chain along the length of the reef.

• Known as a type of “Ribbon Reef,” the Agincourt Reef runs parallel to the line with the Continental Shelf.

• Known as a type of “Ribbon Reef,” the Agincourt Reef runs parallel to the line with the Continental Shelf.

Use reef in a sentence.

• Buccoo Coral Reef, reef off the southwestern coast of Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago, southeastern West Indies.

• The 500m high reef was discovered while a team from James Cook University were mapping the northern Great Barrier Reef seabed.

• In 1996 the Global Coral Reef Alliance, a charity, began using Biorock for reef repairs by growing a six-metre structure in the Maldives.

• The Great Barrier Reef was eventually determined to be the largest reef complex in the world, home to a diverse range of living organisms.

• Supervision of the reef is largely the responsibility of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (declared in 1975), which encompasses the vast majority of the area.

• The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, which licenses operators to visit designated reef sites, confirmed it has received one request to change a permit.

• On calm days, visibility at Cades Reef can be 100 feet, and the reef attracts all the usual Caribbean reef fish, including parrotfish, trumpet fish and barracuda.

• This large marine sanctuary protects the 220-mile (354-kilometer) Florida Keys Reef, the third largest coral barrier reef in the world and the only living coral barrier reef in the continental US.

reef sentence examples

• For example, McKenzie says, there could be more emphasis on the fact bleached coral is not necessarily dead, and bleaching across two-thirds of the reef does not equate to two-thirds of the reef being entirely bleached.

• Two recently published reports add further weight to the evidence: The Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan Report Card 2017 and 2018 and the Outlook Report produced by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority both point in the same direction – the reef ecosystem overall is deteriorating.

• "The massing of China's maritime militia vessels at Whitsun Reef implies that Beijing may attempt to resume its land reclamation project in the Spratly Islands because of the geostrategic location of Whitsun Reef, which is located between Fiery Cross Reef and Mischief Reef," Wong said.

• All of the money announced for the reef was focusing on water quality on the reef, with the budget remaining silent on climate change, which the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has said is the most serious risk facing the reef and which is causing the current bleaching crisis.