How to Use watershed in a Sentence

watershed

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  • 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
  • What are some threats to, the Mobile Bay, to the estuary, to the watershed here in the area?
    — Margaret Kates | Mkates@al.com, al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • In recent months, Gov. Spencer Cox closed the lake’s watershed to new water rights.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The total water use is a teeny portion of the watershed.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
  • As much as a 30% to 50% reduction in water use in the entire watershed.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
  • More trees help set up the watershed against erosion and attract more rainfall.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
  • Thanks to a watershed that doesn’t produce much pollution, Lake George’s waters are clear, clean, and safe to swim in.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Both lakes collect a lot of storm debris because of their low watersheds.
    — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 15 July 2023
  • Its water comes from a forested watershed in the Catskill Mountains that costs about $167 million a year to maintain.
    — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • The Army Corps installed wattles – mesh nets filled with hay – along the watershed to try to catch the ashy sludge before too much got into the water system.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The relief could include restrictions on how much litter is used and how it can be applied in the watershed.
    — Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 18 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, the intake capacity of 6,000 cubic feet per second is a small fraction of what can move through the watershed.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Centerpiece of the line is the 5,866-meter-long Albula Tunnel, which runs deep beneath the watershed between the Rhine and Danube rivers.
    — Ben Jones, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Indeed, ilani has been a watershed for the 5,000-member Cowlitz tribe, which claims ancestral lands that stretch from the Cowlitz River south to the Columbia.
    — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
  • In follow-up emails and a phone call, spokespeople for the state said the fines cover the first phase of the Cymric spill, in which a river of thick crude flowed down a natural watershed.
    — Janet Wilson, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Wetlands play an integral role in the ecology of the watershed.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 June 2023
  • This winter, storms have brought an above-average snowpack in the watershed.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The pristine watershed produces the largest run in the world of sockeye salmon, according to analysts with the McKinley Research Group.
    — Evan Bush, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2023

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