How to Use weir in a Sentence

weir

noun
  • In fact, the weirs found along the route were involved in the milling process.
    — Jeanine Barone, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Try your hand at weaving a fish weir or craft a split bamboo fly rod.
    — Maysoon Khan, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2019
  • Crews are working to complete the dam’s structure, water pump and overflow weir.
    — Dallas News, 14 June 2021
  • The control structure is a concrete weir that parallels the river for a mile and a half.
    — Littice Bacon-Blood, NOLA.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • One of the biggest obstacles to the restoration was the question of whether or not to remove the weir.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The weir was there to prevent the same kind of runaway erosion that would happen if water flowed over the dam itself.
    — Christopher Cox Spencer Lowell, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • The results were almost immediate — the next year, two coho were caught in the tribe’s weir.
    — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Because of the weir, the 220-acre lagoon can’t flow freely to the ocean and is slowly filling with silt and reeds.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Plans for the restoration were delayed for several years by a long-standing disagreement over whether the weir should be removed.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The Buena Vista Lagoon has been blocked off from the ocean since the weir was first built in the 1940s.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The present-day weir was installed in the early 1970s after the previous structure washed out.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2021
  • Removing the weir will lower the entire lagoon’s water level by several feet and restore the ebb and flow of ocean tides to the basin.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
  • During the dry summers when no water flows over the weir the lagoon becomes stagnant, sometimes filling with algae and killing off large numbers of fish.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Officials said that a new weir, or low dam, built outside the cave was helping to keep water levels relatively stable within.
    — New York Times, 9 July 2018
  • The idea of removing the weir has long polarized North County residents.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Without the weir, the ocean tides could flow in and out, creating a predominantly saltwater system.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The improvement project includes installing a concrete wall, building anchor blocks at the base of the dam and elevating the pool weirs by 7 feet.
    — Savannah Mehrtens, Houston Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The conceptual leap from weirs to a nine-story circular waterfall is what makes the whole project interesting.
    — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2016
  • The project includes the removal of the weir to restore tidal saltwater flushing to the 220-acre lagoon, along with native plants and wildlife.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The god Errakal was uprooting the mooring-poles, Ninurta, passing by, made the weirs overflow.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
  • With the main spillway damaged, the lake quickly filled to capacity and water began flowing over a concrete weir that serves as an emergency spillway.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Silt and sediment carried by irrigation and stormwater runoff have been slowly filling the lagoon since the weir was built, slowly turning it into a marsh.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Standing near a weir that was collecting and discharging water from a stream, with sensors to detect the flow and water chemistry, Driscoll explained what came next.
    — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The changes likely contributed to a slight rebound noted in the forage base last year as well as substantially bigger sizes in predator fish caught by anglers and returning to weirs.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Throughout the summer of 2018, our staff will use weirs and aerial surveys to gauge run strength to assess if the closure might be modified inseason.
    — Sam Cotten, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The authors noted that fish weirs were a primary means of food supply for maritime Mesolithic populations in Europe.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Water officials currently have not opened the Sacramento weir, which flows into the Yolo Bypass.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The company hasn't yet determined whether the weir that drains the lake was open or if contamination may have flowed into the Cape Fear River.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fox News, 15 Sep. 2018
  • The 220-acre lagoon at the border of Oceanside and Carlsbad has a weir, or low dam, at the mouth near the beach that keeps seawater out and freshwater in.
    — Phil Diehl, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • According to Jones, the Shaktoolik River weir counted about a million pinks through the river on Wednesday alone.
    — Author: Davis Hovey, Anchorage Daily News, 12 July 2019

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