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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], 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
  • As much as a 30% to 50% reduction in water use in the entire watershed.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In 2020, for example, a judge struck down an effort to grant Lake Eerie its own bill of rights in order to protect the health of the watershed.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The wildfire has been burning through the upper Mill and Deer Creek watersheds, threatening forested canyons that provide some of last intact spawning habitat for spring-run Chinook salmon.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Firefighters on Saturday worked to contain the southeastern corner of the fire and protect property in Beulah and the Middle Creek watershed using drip torches and aerial ignition.
    — Julianna O'Clair, The Denver Post, 7 July 2024

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