How to Use catchment area in a Sentence

catchment area

noun
  • But in the way stand Auroville’s youth center, a water catchment area and hundreds of trees.
    — New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022
  • To enroll in Vaux, students must live in the neighborhood catchment area.
    — Kia Gregory, The Root, 2 May 2018
  • Since then, there have been no homicides within the catchment area's boundaries for 368 days.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 26 May 2026
  • But land is still being lost and Conteh points to the fires burning close to the catchment area as a new land grab gets underway.
    — David McKenzie, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Philadelphia has the larger catchment area for passengers, but its connects come late in the day.
    — Ted Reed, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The catchment area is broad and diverse, with several clubs competing for inner-city talent.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 22 July 2024
  • Half of the island has already been converted into rainwater catchment areas, and three new reservoirs will soon bring it to two-thirds.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010
  • The fridge’s mechanical parts replenish their lubricant by recycling the oil that has pooled in the catchment area.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2021
  • All this makes flooding more severe, as deforestation in the catchment area of a river reduces the land’s ability to retain water.
    — Gayathri D Naik, Quartz India, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The precision spraying begins by mapping water catchment areas.
    — Ryan Lanclos, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Then, on January 19, thunderstorms dumped large amounts of rain in the Mannus Creek catchment area.
    — Adam Welz, Wired, 21 Mar. 2020
  • First off was the catchment area as around 500 million people with enough disposable income live within a four-hour plane flight of Abu Dhabi.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Workers began clearing debris and mud at first light from a catchment area where material had overtopped concrete barriers along the northbound shoulder.
    — Bay City News Service, Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • That means leveraging data on foot traffic, sales, and customer demographics to gain new insights into where their brand sits within each different catchment area.
    — Jill Standish, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • These systems have simplified payment and opened up a much larger employee and employment catchment area beyond the traditional hubs.
    — Timothy Papandreou, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Cities need to protect flood defences and catchment areas, such as the wetlands around Kolkata and the lakes in and around Pokhara in Nepal, whose value is becoming clear.
    — The Economist, 2 Sep. 2017
  • But at the time of the project’s conception, global warming was an almost esoteric concept, and in the years that followed, its effects on the catchment area upstream were not thoroughly studied.
    — Bhadra Sharma, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Crucially, the catchment area has to be big enough to support the park without cannibalizing the attendance of one of Disney’s existing outposts.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
  • According to the government, water catchment areas now cover two-thirds of Singapore’s surface area, up from half in 2011.
    — Kamakshi Ayyar, Time, 6 June 2018
  • There are 16 residential mental health beds available to people in the United Services catchment area in northeastern Connecticut.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Pushy parents form another nationwide problem, as Stephen Warnock, who grew up in Ormskirk, within the catchment area laid out above, and progressed through the Liverpool ranks to their first team, explains.
    — Gregg Evans, The Athletic, 11 Feb. 2025
  • In an effort to understand the varied needs within a multicultural community, Promise Neighborhood programs are required to conduct door-to-door surveys of families in their catchment area.
    — Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2020
  • The geographic reach of this educational movement extends well beyond traditional university catchment areas.
    — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The Atewa landscape provides rich forest cover for climate regulation, a show piece to illustrate climate adaptation to avoid drought, reduce poverty and enhance sustainable livelihoods and improve human well being in its catchment area.
    — Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Quartz Africa, 21 Aug. 2019
  • However, when Les Halles, Paris's former food market opened in the same catchment area, the store struggled to retained its customers, eventually fell into disrepair, and was forced to close in 2005 for safety reasons.
    — Rooksana Hossenally, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • What a great opportunity for the students, staff and alumni of New Trier and ETHS, with catchment areas divided by Isabella Street, located right at this very stadium.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026
  • The UChicago Medicine Ralph Lauren Center will enhance access to high-quality cancer screening, comprehensive cancer care and support services, serving a catchment area of more than 900,000 community members in Chicago’s South Side and Southland communities.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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