How to Use watermark in a Sentence

watermark

1 of 2 noun
  • The footage bears a Nest watermark.
    — Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Press it with a warm iron for a few seconds at a time until watermark goes away.
    — Stacia Affelt, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2019
  • How many of us really need or want to hit that high a watermark in our own careers?
    — Mike Rucker, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • That may come to be seen as a high watermark for the drive for independence.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The downside to Camo is that a watermark remains on your video feed.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 20 July 2022
  • To me, the high watermark of that kind of playing is Gary Moore.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Your software finds hints of what might be a watermark but nothing certain.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026
  • These questions hover on the surface of the plot like a watermark.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Part of the watermark visible in news video reports from the time can be seen in the post's video.
    — Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
  • So far, only still images, not videos or text, can carry the watermark.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The first few weeks of 2026 have been filled with high watermarks for Bryan.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The outlet tested three of the sites and found that each could erase the watermark within seconds.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The watermark is a familiar sign to most people in the entire world.
    — Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
  • Experts might add a watermark that machines can detect, but viewers cannot see.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The watermark will start to appear on CVS’ house brands this year.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Of course, sometimes there are also watermarks, but bad actors find ways to remove them.
    — Christian Perry, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Now is a great time to try to sell Jones, and what could be his high watermark in terms of fantasy value.
    — Jennifer Eakins, SI.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • These new watermarks are designed to follow the video no matter how many times it's uploaded.
    — PC Magazine, 19 Nov. 2025
  • These new watermarks are designed to follow the video no matter how many times it's uploaded.
    — PC Magazine, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Before The troll farm stamped images with watermarks and logos.
    — Davey Alba, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
  • But tools have already been created to either add or remove watermarks from videos.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Many apps and websites now offer users a way to obscure AI watermarks.
    — Tavleen Tarrant, NBC news, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Sky tracked down Foster via the watermark on his account number, which appeared on his screen.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the watermark for Alamy, a stock image website, is visible in the meme.
    — Devon Link, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The group expects to finish work on the watermark technology by next year.
    — Alexandra Bruell, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2019
  • Images remain available to download at any time and come without watermarks or ads.
    — PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
  • His watermark is visible in the bottom-left corner of the image.
    — Emiliano Tahui Gómez, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Moire is a fabric that appears to have a wavy pattern, almost a watermark, within the fabric.
    — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Users can also add watermarks, comments, and shapes to documents.
    — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • An expert eye could notice that the watermark was actually that of a $5 bill.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 6 Feb. 2018

watermark

2 of 2 verb
  • Bluitt has tried to watermark her photos, but they are stolen anyway.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Mildred is now taking steps to watermark her videos, website and urging you to watch out, too.
    — Frankie McLister, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Currently, the ability to watermark a data set can be used by bad actors to cause harm.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Artists who are concerned about digital piracy should watermark their photos.
    — arkansasonline.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • At the same time, the image itself degraded, growing more compressed and watermarked with more layers of text scribbled out and written over again.
    — Verge Staff, The Verge, 27 Dec. 2018
  • That's huge news for photographers who spend a lot of time renaming or watermarking images in Finder.
    — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 June 2018
  • Real-time video watermarking technology can now do the same thing with video files, secretly plastering your name across the center of a stream.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 4 Apr. 2018
  • But to help smooth things over, the original tape will be destroyed and all copies watermarked, according to court documents obtained by Billboard.
    — Tatiana Cirisano, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The script, indeed, appeared on the consumer-to-consumer website with Boyega’s name watermarked on every page, according to the actor.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2019
  • There could be new hope on the horizon, however, in the form of an authentication system that watermarks videos using fluctuations in the on-location lighting.
    — New Atlas, 11 Aug. 2025
  • To avoid misinformation, the order requires agencies to watermark images or videos that may be generated through AI as per the guidance issued by the state.
    — Reuters, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Fox along with Polygon Labs also this week unveiled a new blockchain protocol for media companies to watermark their content as authentic to help consumers know what’s fake and what’s real.
    — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The main trick is selecting the right number of data samples from a data set to watermark—too few can lead to a weak backdoor attack, while too many can rouse suspicion and decrease the data set’s accuracy for legitimate users.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2023

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