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 | [email protected], al, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The 20-mile ride will give bikers a view of all parts of the watershed.
    — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The watershed is made up of 102 square miles in the Sandy River basin near Mount Hood.
    — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • The Army Corps in its new report said the project would not cause grave harm to the region’s watershed.
    — Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The number of wells drilled in the watershed has increased.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The relatively short watershed’s head is in the foothills just north of the big Lake.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
  • As for the health of habitats across the 6,600-square-mile watershed, there were mixed results.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 20 Feb. 2020
  • 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 basin, which is home to Ash Meadows, is a vast desert watershed that feeds the Amargosa River.
    — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • On Monday, the center filed the notice of intent to sue over the issue for a third time, in the Verde watershed.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 17 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • Five of the traps are in the Black Warrior watershed, and three are on tributaries to the Cahaba.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 10 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Most of the water in the Boise River watershed comes from snow runoff from the Sawtooth mountains.
    — Olivia Brandon, Idaho Statesman, 23 Mar. 2025
  • 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 other 90 percent of the city's water is supplied by reservoirs in the Delaware and Catskill watersheds, which are not as affected by salt due to their more remote locations, the AP reports.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025

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