shallow

"Unlike typical shallow reefs, it does not always form a single continuous reef structure. Instead, it can appear as patchy or scattered coral communities spread across the seafloor."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

"A mesophotic coral ecosystem lives deeper than the usual shallow coral reefs, in zones where light is much more limited," explained Zinzindohoué.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Snell had cruised through the first two innings, a Texas leaguer into shallow right field the only blemish on an otherwise perfect beginning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

The road outside the school in Khedi Kalan village is dotted with shallow potholes filled with filthy water.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The snowmobile zoomed around shallow frozen lakes, and dodged clusters of smooth gray rocks that stuck up out of the white blanket of snow like icebergs on the ocean.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Instead of racing directly to the surface, however, the magma moved upward slowly and then stalled at a much shallower depth of 2 to 5 km.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

This intensified circulation caused the thermocline, the boundary between warmer surface water and colder deep water, to become shallower across the Atlantic.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

However, small growers often have shallower wells that are more vulnerable to going dry when water levels drop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Young sharks tend to remain in the refuge of shallower areas near the shore where larger predators are less common.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

“Going to have another go anyway, try a shallower descent. Still have quite a lot of fuel, don’t really want to crash and go up in flames.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Currently, surveys are limited to very restricted spots, but with the help of these advanced underwater drones, scientists can extend their research from the shallowest regions to depths of 60 meters and beyond.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024

Though residential investment, which includes homebuilding, likely contracted for the ninth straight quarter, the decline was probably the shallowest in 1-1/2 years.

From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023

And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2023

Still, I hope Sandro sticks around for many more weeks for the shallowest reason ever.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022

The moon was hidden somewhere behind the blinding glare, and it felt like the city itself was collapsing, pressing in, taking only the shallowest of breaths in the squeeze of lost space.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

A span of international waters runs through the strait but perilous shallows mean the navigable channel is a winding route just 7 miles wide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

In February last year, a tourist in the Caribbean had both hands bitten off while trying to get a photograph of a bull shark from the shallows, according to local authorities.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

On Thursday, the beachside felt calm as a woman was leisurely paddle boarding in the shallows while children played on the beach.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

They frequent the shallows surrounding Friday Harbor Labs, the UW research facility located on San Juan Island.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

The Crochan rolled to its side and sank in the muddy shallows.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

Once again, the sea shallowed, and fish shimmied between crags, sea urchins perched on ridges and starfish danced on the side of the island.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 6, 2017

Instead of descending directly into the mantle, the subducting plate shallowed out and moved eastward beneath the continental plate affecting the overlying continent hundreds of miles east of the continental margin and building high mountains.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017

That shows I've shallowed the path of my driver from the top to impact.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 7, 2016

“Be a good boy,” my mother said with a shallowed voice before closing the door behind her, leaving us alone.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2013

The pool had been narrowed by half and shallowed to a depth of ten feet in the series of explosions Sears had detonated until the river gave up the rent carcass of the monstrous reptile.

From Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

The researchers cite as one example the Bangkok basin in Thailand, where groundwater levels fell in the late-twentieth century before shallowing out in the early 21at Century.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2024

Instead, the fish have been forced to lay their eggs at the base of Shasta Lake in the shallowing Sacramento River.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2022

His short-iron stats are trailing, but that's a result of how well he's shallowing the club into impact.

From Golf Digest ● May 29, 2019

But the shallowing seawater in the Baltic Sea is not the only thing worrying people in the area, says Knutsson.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2017

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin