How to use "surface" in a sentence

The top of the Nautilus was just above the surface of the water

One afternoon, while the Nautilus was on the surface of the water, I went upstairs to have a look outside

But the Nautilus did not go near the surface of the water again for some time

For a moment he goes down, but then he kicks his legs, and he comes to the surface and looks up at Sylvia in the boat

For a few moments he sinks slowly into the great loch, but then, somehow, miraculously, he kicks again, and he comes to the surface once more

And for a little while more they wait, until the surface of the pool is calm again

It disappeared under the surface for a moment, so Sala looked around.

There, below the surface, were hundreds of multicolored fish

Sala did the same with another dolphin and they had a lot of fun, diving down through the water and back up to the surface with a splash.

White seabirds flew close to the surface of the water, fighting against the wind

Underneath it, metal, rubber, and plastic attachments lay on the surface of her skin

When she picked up the scattered sticks of chalk and the felt eraser, turning again to the chalkboard, she realized that two words were crudely printed on the black surface:

As a sponge soaked up water, she took a chill from the surface of the slate

Maybe it was really pretty near the surface."

"Heat coils embedded in the surface," Elliot said.

The doors slid open three floors below the surface, on the next to the last level.

Could this spot on Danny's brain have anything to do with the boy's psychic power? Were his latent psychic abilities brought to the surface as a direct result of the man-made virus with which he had been repeatedly infected? Crazy - but it didn't seem any more unlikely than that he had fallen victim to Project Pandora in the first place

When I wondered aloud how any vehicle could negotiate this surface, my question was not understood

It must be, if scientific thinking is correct, older than our world, and life on its surface began a long time before this Earth cooled down

Its air is much thinner than ours, its oceans have become smaller until they cover only a third of its surface, and from its far north and south the ice is steadily moving forwards

During 1894, a great light was seen on the surface of the planet by a number of astronomers

Towards midnight on 12 August, one astronomer noticed a great cloud of hot gas on the surface of the planet

I told Ogilvy, and he took my place and watched the cloud of gas growing as it rose from the surface of the planet

On the surface of the Earth the force of gravity is three times as great as on the surface of Mars

The stones under my feet were muddy and slippery, and the river was so low that I moved perhaps seven metres before I could get under the surface

At that moment I got under the water and, holding my breath until movement was painful, swam under the surface for as long as I could

In the back of the head, or body - I do not really know what to call it - there was a flat surface like the skin of a drum, which we now know worked as an ear