How to Use watershed in a Sentence

watershed

noun

• The show will not air until after the nine o'clock watershed.
• The last two years have been watersheds for the Range Rover.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• The watershed’s rivers and streams are home to over 30 species of fish.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• What are some threats to, the Mobile Bay, to the estuary, to the watershed here in the area?
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 13 Feb. 2023
• That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters’ flow.
  — Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Knuth said the fish was found in the same watershed as the first one, though about 70 river miles north of the initial catch.
  — CBS News, 26 June 2023
• Both have since been removed, and the restoration of the watershed has started.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
• The overlook sits 1,400 feet above the New River and its watershed.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
• For many China specialists in the West, the speech was a watershed.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• That strike was a watershed, because of the way the public rallied around the teachers, Wong said.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• About 65% of the water on the Great Salt Lake watershed goes to agriculture.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2022
• Between the two watersheds, there’s about 1.1 million acre-feet massed and ready to pour toward the desert.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• The pending update will set rules for the Sacramento River watershed and the rest of the delta.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The Cragin watershed project is split into zones to be tackled one at a time for about the next decade.
  — AZCentral.com, 21 June 2022
• The full challenge list posted on the watershed’s website doesn’t end with the last sweet days of summer.
  — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• There are no cesspools in Waikiki, but there are some in the watershed of the Ala Wai Canal bordering the district.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 July 2023
• Putin's war is not the sole reason for a global watershed.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• In recent months, Gov. Spencer Cox closed the lake’s watershed to new water rights.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
• But the study said the bulk of the floodwaters would have come even had the watershed been undeveloped.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
• The dam itself is in Uruguay, but 73% of the river’s watershed is in neighboring Brazil.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 9 July 2021
• The entire watershed received a B- for the second straight year.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2021
• The changes have been evolving over decades, but this football season is a watershed.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• These fish are unique for their large home ranges and for their tendency to use all of the accessible parts of the watershed.
  — Becki Robins, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
• In the weeks since, however, snowfall throughout the watershed has been at a record or near-record low.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Feb. 2022
• The scientific watershed put an end to the pandemic in sight for the first time.
  — Christopher Rowland, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2021
• The second one, which was 13-inches in length, was also found in the same watershed as the first one, though about 70 river miles north of the initial catch.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
• About 65 percent of the water on the Great Salt Lake watershed goes to agriculture.
  — NBC News, 3 Feb. 2022
• The total water use is a teeny portion of the watershed.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
• Mining operations have been actively seeking to find and mine it, and one large deposit is believed to lie under the Big Sandy watershed.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
• Any municipality is at risk of water contamination if a wildfire burns through its watershed.
  — Hannah Singleton, WIRED, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024