How to Use seaweed in a Sentence

seaweed

noun
  • There was no wind, and piles of seaweed lined the shore.
    Sanaë Lemoine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The snack is wrapped neatly with a piece of nori or dried seaweed.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The seaweed is grown in the tanks along with the algae that went into the breakfast bar.
    Evan Fraser, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Use this on green onions, rosemary, cilantro, and seaweed, just to name a few.
    Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 15 Sep. 2022
  • And what changes would need to be made to mimic the effect of a seaweed diet?
    WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The rounds of seaweed are crisp and curved, cradling a smear of mashed avocado and a heap of caviar.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The seaweed is made up of algal species in the genus Sargassum.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Take the weedy sea dragon, a sea horse-like fish that waves its body like seaweed.
    Tomas Weber, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Now, the farm grows both oysters and seaweed, and offers tours and tastings for guests.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The counters were covered in seaweed, which poked out of cabinets and the oven.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • This gives you time to score more reasonable hotel rates and avoid the seaweed.
    Jamie Ditaranto, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2023
  • There are huge brown blobs of seaweed in the water in Florida.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • It’s stacked on a block of rice and wrapped in seaweed to make Spam musubi, and sold at fast-food chains like McDonald’s in Hawaii.
    Chris Boyette, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
  • In some places, the water reaches almost to the base of the island’s grassy dunes, and seaweed clumps beneath the steps of the walkways that lead from town to the beach.
    Liam Stack, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Mothers share the work with their children who help attach seaweed cuttings to the lines.
    Mariejo Ramos, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
  • But among the many points the show makes is how seaweed can relate to society no less than nature.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • It can also be found in seafood like tuna, oysters, and shrimp, seaweed, eggs, and milk.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Foie gras appears in both a rice dish with gold queen rice and mushrooms and a noodle dish with anchovy and seaweed.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 31 May 2023
  • Seagrove Kelp now ranks as the country’s largest active seaweed farm.
    Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2023
  • Unexpected foods like raw meat, seaweed, and organ meats take the place of grains.
    Lisa Mulcahy, Good Housekeeping, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Just a puck of coffee held together by a food-safe coating of seaweed.
    Jaina Grey, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2024
  • For one, seaweed clogging the shoreline prevents boats from getting to sea.
    Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In 2015, as part of his gardening business, Mr. Vazquez launched a beach cleanup service to remove the leafy seaweed.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Pål Bakken and the SeaForester team are helping to restore seaweed to the ocean, which helps to capture carbon and restore ecosystems.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In fact, around 95% of edible seaweed in the U.S. is imported.
    Bylucy Sherriff, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
  • At one farm, a blend of seaweed is mixed into cow feed to reduce emissions from belches.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Their faces were enveloped in hair, tangled and salted like seaweed.
    David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Keep an eye out for rip currents by looking for breaks in waves where foam, seaweed or sand is being pulled away from shore.
    Cara Korte, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • Sea moss, also known as Irish moss, is a seaweed that has been used for centuries as a superfood.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2023
  • Without any deposits like seaweed, the recognizable high tide line would be the wet line on a sandy or rocky beach.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023

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