How to Use catchment in a Sentence

catchment

noun
  • At first, the city used the stony ridge for woodlots and rain catchments.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 5 June 2018
  • Some of the water catchments are so remote that there are no roads leading to them.
    — Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But soil in catchments has been warming and drying across the planet.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Next to the prison visitors’ parking lot, a small catchment pond holds runoff.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Even across a small catchment such as Langtang, the rains vary strikingly.
    — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • There are hundreds of catchments like Langtang across the Himalayas.
    — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Set in the heart of county Kildare is one of the wealthiest catchments in the country.
    — Fairchild Studio, WWD, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Shorebirds nest on the roof next to solar panels and a rainwater catchment system.
    — Lindsey J. Smith, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • At the lower left, a rivulet of water trickles from a half-round wooden pipe into the cool darkness of a catchment pool.
    — William E. Wallace, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Wells and water catchment tanks are drying out, forcing ranchers to turn to groundwater to fill stock ponds for their cows.
    — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The cabin has eight bunks with thin foam pads, attached water catchment tanks and composting toilets.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The Langtang catchment is a small river basin that drains several mountain peaks and glaciers.
    — Walter Immerzeel, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Homes get their water from the rainfall, using water catchments to pump into households.
    — Nour Malas, WSJ, 8 May 2018
  • And rainwater catchment systems can store water from rain gutters.
    — James Reed, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2017
  • Game and Fish now oversees and maintains 3,000 water catchments across the state.
    — Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The slum is on a slight downward slope, creating an unwanted catchment of rainwater.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Most camping toilets have one catchment that combines liquids and solids, creating a mess that stinks up your vehicle.
    — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 16 July 2022
  • Students must live in a neighborhood zoned for the school and higher quality schools and districts can drive up the price of homes in their catchment areas.
    — Mike McShane, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Which isn’t to say there are no luxuries in their off-the-grid home, which is equipped with a solar panel array and a rainwater catchment system.
    — David Martindale, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The park is blessed with a relative abundance of water and a rain-catchment system, which yields an interior full of fir, spruce, and aspen forests.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 1 Aug. 2022
  • After the hazard has passed, do check your home, and especially your catchment system for any impact that may affect your water quality.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 17 May 2018
  • Having more options and layers of catchment is good for any industrial process, whether that’s recycling, smelting, or laser cutting.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Brantley’s team used sodium as a proxy to calculate the amount of silicate weathering happening in river catchments around the world.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 13 Feb. 2023
  • One of the region’s natural snow scoops is at Sugar Bowl, with a curving back wall that acts as a natural catchment during big snow events.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Mar. 2018
  • The bridge will be ADA-compliant and include a rainwater catchment system.
    — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 Dec. 2019
  • The city's rainwater catchment basins have been so dry that one, the El Cristo basin, caught fire on Tuesday, burning through 75 acres.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Rainwater catchment systems work great and can be a steady source for watering a garden, but be sure to look into the laws dictating water harvesting rights in your state.
    — Scott Yorko, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Anthony said the hydraulic fluid is contained in tanks at the facility and surrounded by catchment devices to make sure a rupture or leak is not released.
    — Cristina Larue, Arkansas Online, 5 Jan. 2023
  • To prevent flooding the park will have bioswales or stormwater catchment systems to reduce basement flooding and capture water runoff from adjacent streets and alleys.
    — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2023
  • Rain flows off the church’s roof to the underground catchment, then irrigates a large garden and orchard, which includes tomatoes, cucumbers, beets, figs, and even juju berries.
    — Tara Adhikari, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Nov. 2021

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