How to Use kelp in a Sentence

kelp

noun
Definition of kelpnext
  • Well, the fish fins, the fish bones, the kelp and coral.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Nov. 2022
  • At the end of the day, Bood’s boats will be waist-high with kelp.
    — Kathleen Hou, ELLE, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The best place to hunt white seabass is in the kelp beds, like this one.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • The seeds are put in a hatchery where the kelp can grow.
    — Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 3 May 2021
  • The loss of kelp forests along the coast is one of those stories.
    — Ralph Pace, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Now 35, Francke helped build the first kelp farm in Maine a decade ago.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • In the water in the distance, a sea otter floats in the kelp.
    — Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The start-up Running Tide wants to use kelp to suck carbon out of the sky.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
  • False Bay, a 30-minute drive from Cape Town, has emerged as a kelp tourism hot spot.
    — Jen Murphy, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Now, even the red-algae reefs on which the swirling stands of kelp once stood are in peril.
    — Katherine J. Wu New York Times, Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The seas were at 5 feet 20 miles out of Ninilchik, but avoiding kelp beds slowed us more than waves.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • With sea salt, kelp, and algae, a few spritzes of this will add texture to any style.
    — ELLE, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Anything like egg shells, kelp, shellfish or fish should be well buried in the soil.
    — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The kelp grows on a floating farm, along with mussels and pens full of steelhead trout.
    — Gary Dzen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2018
  • Yet just removing urchins isn’t enough to bring kelp back on a wide scale.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Aloe and sea kelp strengthen and hydrate hair from the inside out.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2022
  • Abalone are very much an indicator of the health of the kelp forest.
    — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2019
  • These were harsh lands, sparse with shrubs and herbs; to the south, there were boreal woodlands, and where the land met the sea, kelp forests and seals.
    — Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • At the bottom of kelp stocks are appendages called holdfasts, which live up to their names, Grace says.
    — Katherine Ellen Foley, Quartz at Work, 5 Nov. 2020
  • In June or July, the adult kelp begin dropping spores for next year’s crop.
    — Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Sireno is a tribute to the sea that contrasts florals like ylang ylang and tuberose with a marine note of kelp.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Petsch, on the other hand, offers up kelp noodles with kale pesto.
    — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 11 June 2018
  • Along the beaches are colonies of seals and penguins, and just offshore lie golden kelp forests.
    — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Under the right conditions, kelp can grow up to 1 foot in a single day.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
  • The kelp green option with a touch of orange in the lining and big retro buttons is pictured here.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2020
  • In Monterey Bay, the otters don’t only protect the kelp.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Monterey Bay divers are restoring kelp forests by killing sea urchins.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple urchins devouring kelp forests.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • The pot includes money for restoration of kelp forests, removal of obsolete dams, and fish hatchery expansions.
    — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
  • Now, these prickly grazers are mowing down the kelp en masse and creating extensive urchin barrens where there were once dense, flourishing kelp forests.
    — Jennifer Adler, Vox, 7 July 2024

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