How to Use hydrology in a Sentence

hydrology

noun
  • But the past three winters have shown how the state’s hydrology can vary widely.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Once a project of this size is built, the hydrology of the site is permanently changed.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2026
  • What’s bad news for our emotional health is good news for the hydrology outlook.
    — oregonlive, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Williams is the first to admit hydrology is not an exact science.
    — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Over time, the data can show whether an area’s hydrology — how water moves on land — is changing.
    — Sarah Meehan, baltimoresun.com, 31 May 2018
  • Letsinger said this will severely impact the hydrology of the area.
    — Emily Hopkins, Indianapolis Star, 9 July 2018
  • The onus would fall to developers to study the hydrology of a water system to prove their project would cause no harm.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The first step will be to conduct a hydrology study and remove drainage pipes to restore wetlands in low-lying areas.
    — Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Soil and hydrology studies are underway at the shopping mall site, and the results should be available in a few weeks.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2022
  • After the ground cools, a team of hydrology and biology experts will assess the burn area.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 22 June 2020
  • Conversations buzzed with hydrology terms and tales of past outings.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Images taken by its camera are used in hydrology and forestry and data sent by it are used for oceanographic studies.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • The dams and ponds appeared to have altered the hydrology of the landscape around them, Tinniswood says.
    — Isobel Whitcomb, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Over time vehicular and foot traffic has changed the hydrology of the Black Rock.
    — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 8 Sep. 2023
  • There have been no visual changes to the ground surface or hydrology, however, radars have detected high rates of ground uplift.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Prevention of threats such as sea level rise, pollution, and hydrology changes will take more time but have a larger, long-term impact.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Most are in pretty good shape, but many of them were built 70 and 80 years ago and were designed for a different hydrology.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
  • Skiers harness their knowledge of friction and hydrology, and lugers push their aerodynamics chops to the limits.
    — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
  • This is ideal underground storage in contrast to the rocky hydrology of the rough North Coast.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The topography and hydrology of the city made extending the street a difficult prospect.
    — Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2022
  • The old hydrology was reasserting itself, the lake bottom transmuted back into a lake.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Since then the work has been ongoing — removing trees, weeding out invasive species, putting in a new hydrology system.
    — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 23 June 2017
  • Some of them, no doubt, are willing to adopt the cynical view that swamp monsters are better at fighting in that terrain than those accustomed to more agreeable hydrologies.
    — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Almost all upper basin users get their water directly from the river and its tributaries, so their supply is subject to the year-to-year hydrology, or flow.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • But the Club didn’t hire hydrology experts or professional engineers to strengthen the dam.
    — Popular Mechanics, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Riggs has set up programs in several schools where science teachers can teach their students about the state’s hydrology and sea-level rise, with plans to expand the effort.
    — Bill Marr, National Geographic, 28 Oct. 2016
  • The idea that forests should be conserved to store carbon has greater sway in the northern hemisphere, while the immediate effects on hydrology are more personal to those who live near the trees.
    — Alex Chun, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In that scenario, crevasses would open up in the glacial ice during the summer, allowing water to pour down to the bedrock, supercharging the subglacial hydrology.
    — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Keeping the aqueduct in working order is a herculean task even before confronting the challenging hydrology of the climate crisis.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
  • Slowly the area is transforming while the city’s transport and hydrology infrastructure improves.
    — Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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