How to Use watershed in a Sentence

watershed

noun
  • The show will not air until after the nine o'clock watershed.
  • That day was a watershed in my life.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • More good news is that all service roads and trails are open in the watershed.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The free event will talk about flood risk, watershed and flood forecasts.
    — Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2019
  • The canal’s watershed does not belong to the canal.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The watershed’s rivers and streams are home to over 30 species of fish.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • The watershed is nourished by the salmon run.
    — Andrew Watman, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The 20-mile ride will give bikers a view of all parts of the watershed.
    — Post-Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2020
  • The pipeline would pass through the watersheds of some of the richest wild rice beds in the world.
    — Sarah Hurtes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Greetings shift on either side of a watershed and can vary even within a town.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Hikers and dogs are not allowed in any of the watershed’s reservoirs or streams.
    — Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Mallard Creek is one of the largest watersheds in the county.
    — Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Both have since been removed, and the restoration of the watershed has started.
    — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Active cropland is the most common land use in the watershed.
    — Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Here are some of the major projects in each of the county’s 23 watersheds.
    — Zach Despart, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2018
  • That date, a watershed of life, not just of hers, the sluice gate of a dam on the river that blocks the waters’ flow.
    — Claudio Magris, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • For all that, though, Monday morning was a new watershed.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 June 2026
  • Without beavers in the watersheds, streams and river beds eroded.
    — Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, the question is, what kind of watershed and that that chapter remains to be written.
    — NBC news, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That loss at Swansea has proved to be a watershed in Wrexham’s season.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The relatively short watershed’s head is in the foothills just north of the big Lake.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
  • The Cragin watershed project is split into zones to be tackled one at a time for about the next decade.
    — AZCentral.com, 21 June 2022
  • The full challenge list posted on the watershed’s website doesn’t end with the last sweet days of summer.
    — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • Half the watersheds in the San Joaquin are above 7,500 feet.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Knuth said the fish was found in the same watershed as the first one, though about 70 river miles north of the initial catch.
    — CBS News, 26 June 2023
  • The last substantial changes to the plan date to 1995 for much of the watershed.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The Army Corps in its new report said the project would not cause grave harm to the region’s watershed.
    — Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2020
  • But the study said the bulk of the floodwaters would have come even had the watershed been undeveloped.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 10 June 2022
  • Winona has a surface area of 1,240 acres and a watershed of 43 square miles.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The entire watershed received a B- for the second straight year.
    — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2021

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