How to Use water table in a Sentence

water table

noun
  • Heavy rainfall has caused the water table to rise.
  • As the water table drops, the land is sinking.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • Higher up on the road, the ground water table is much deeper.
    — Alex Harris and Joey Flechas, miamiherald, 28 June 2018
  • Bonus points if the water table has a waterfall and tons of squirt toys!
    — Parents, 23 June 2026
  • When the bogs are cleared, the water table sinks and soil becomes highly flammable.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Since his first season, Cameron has seen the water table drop by a foot or more each year.
    — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Since then, the drying climate has sunk the water table.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Hansen said the water table has dropped 40-50 feet in the last few decades.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The roots of the cerrado plants went deep, reaching down to the water table.
    — New York Times, 13 July 2022
  • That helps give it a chance to seep into the water table and be available from wells during the dry months.
    — Jeremy White, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • While the water tables decline beneath their homes, wells have been going dry.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Objects include a lamp post, water table, a trash can and sculptures.
    — Lauren Castle, azcentral, 25 Mar. 2018
  • This water table is easy to clean and is a good option for kids who are 18 months and older.
    — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The city is lowering the water table about a meter a year, causing the ground to sink as well.
    — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
  • Saiter is anxious the farms’ rapid water use could push the water table too low for the town well to draw safe water from.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The bog’s shape seemed to be essentially governed by the physics of the water table.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2024
  • The tree’s root system will reach down to the water table in roughly 8 to 18 months.
    — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The water table is only 4 to 8 feet from the surface in some areas.
    — Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2025
  • Flexibility is the name of the game with this unique water table.
    — Maya Polton, Parents, 13 June 2023
  • Extreme drought can stress landscapes and water tables, regardless of whether a city is built on top of them or not.
    — Paige Vega, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • If that shallow water table is near a lake or in any wet soil, big tall trees are likely to be uprooted by a storm.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • With this playhouse, your tot gets a kitchen, mailbox, workbench, and a sand and water table combo.
    — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Kilauea had a major eruption last year that caused the collapse of the crater to below the water table.
    — USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019
  • And the deeper the water table falls, the more energy costs increase to pump the water out.
    — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • This has lowered the water table and could imperil some of the newfound obscure species that live there.
    — Ralf Britz, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • As the water table dips lower, the pump will begin to suck air and faucets will sputter as water stops flowing.
    — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But many of the bricks are crumbling, and as the water table rises, entire walls are in danger of falling.
    — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Plains sank as water tables fell mostly from the 1990s and fertile lands turned to dust.
    — Nik Kowsar, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Workers in church yards dug pits down to the water table, layering bodies and dirt, more bodies and dirt.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2020
  • At the railroad bridge over the creek the town had built a dam to maintain the water table in the municipal wells near by.
    — Don Holm, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023

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