How to Use irrigate in a Sentence

irrigate

verb

• The surgeon irrigated the wound.
• Once established, irrigate deeply once a week or every other week.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 2 June 2017
• Water needs: Medium to low water; once established, irrigate deeply once a week or twice a month.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 28 July 2017
• If runoff occurs on steep slopes, try irrigating that zone multiple times per day with shorter durations.
  — Uyeta Landscape and Maintenance, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• In the dry season, farmers must irrigate their poppy crops with water pumped from streams and wells, and the hoses tip off soldiers to their locations.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• So volunteers wrapped many of the plants in chicken wire and shade cloth for protection and carried in water to irrigate the survivors.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• After usage, all wastewater is reconditioned at our wastewater treatment plant and used to irrigate five hectares of crops.
  — Rachel King, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
• Initially, these vehicles were designed to irrigate, plow and grade fields for agricultural use.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Most Florida groves are irrigated, protecting them from drought.
  — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
• Water, essential for irrigating the farmlands that are the lifeblood of the local population, mostly comes from melting snow and ice.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 19 July 2017
• The golf course meanwhile has been using water reserves to irrigate tee boxes and greens but the reserves are expected to be depleted by mid-June, city staff reports state.
  — Ian Bauer, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
• The Nile is fringed predominantly by cropland, and while a lot of it is watered only by rainfall, the most productive portions are irrigated.
  — Kavya Balaraman, Scientific American, 5 May 2017
• Gardeners need to prune, fertilize and irrigate blackberries for best results. Pruning technique varies, depending on the type of bramble.
  — Sarah Stolz, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
• In 2006, Pueblo West agreed to irrigate and revive the land.
  — New York Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• The blood of our martyrs keeps irrigating the soil of the homeland.
  — Dahlia Kholaif, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2017
• At the time, the family was building a 1,600-foot dam on the land to irrigate rice.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the 1800s, the Yowlumne Yokuts used ditches to irrigate crops in their villages, and gathered wild seeds and acorns.
  — Ian James Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• But the canals worked just as well to irrigate poppies - which were much more profitable to grow.
  — Craig Whitlock, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
• After the grapes have been picked, the vineyard needs power to process them and irrigate.
  — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2019
• Some farmers had to irrigate their corn that year, and Andy can tell where the water ran out.
  — Tommy Birch, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
• Deep and slow watering is the best way to irrigate trees.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 30 Mar. 2018
• Avoid irrigating between 4 pm and 4 am to give your grass a chance to dry out.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Sep. 2024
• From there, a growing number of users in the Verde Valley suck it from the ditch to irrigate their fields or lawns.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
• During the heat waves, Gingerich has needed to irrigate more to keep the trees healthy.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• In the years since, the farmland over the Ogallala once again flourished as farmers drew from the aquifer to irrigate their fields.
  — Coral Davenport, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• To establish plantings, be sure to drip irrigate the root ball margin and out from there, not at the base of the main stem.
  — Lynlee Austell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2022
• The current owners installed a 1,000-foot-deep well to irrigate the grounds.
  — Boston.com Real Estate, 11 Sep. 2019
• The land is originally desert, but the first owner irrigates it and soon the desert blooms.
  — Zoe Greenberg, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• The rooftop is solar-ready, the garage is wired for an electric-car charger, and the yard is irrigated.
  — Bang Staff and Correspondents, The Mercury News, 10 June 2019
• That means mow your grass at the proper height for your species, and fertilize and irrigate correctly.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024