How to Use water cycle in a Sentence

water cycle

noun

• The reason has to do with the water cycle.
  — David Boutt, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
• The kids learned so much about the water cycle and how important the wetlands are.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2026
• Run the dishwasher-safe bottles through a hot-water cycle.
  — Laura Schober, Health, 10 Apr. 2026
• The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
• Running an empty hot-water cycle with white vinegar or a machine-cleaning tablet once a month can keep odors and buildup in check.
  — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
• This is hauntingly similar to the water cycle here on Earth that is so critical for life on our own warm planet.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
• That’s why knowing how much liquid laundry detergent to use per load matters more now than ever — the wrong amount in a low-water cycle has nowhere to go.
  — Ryan Brennan may 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
• These problems are compounded by climate change, which is upending the water cycle and bringing more severe droughts and floods.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• Another example is a science lesson on the water cycle.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
• It’s well known that climate change, driven by burning fossil fuels, is throwing the global water cycle off balance and causing scarcity.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
• As temperature rises, the water cycle accelerates, leading to more floods and droughts.
  — Kenneth J. Davis, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025
• But what's so interesting about Titan is that it's got a methane cycle much like Earth's water cycle, with liquid methane forming lakes and rivers and clouds and rain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Jan. 2018
• The capacity of ringwoodite to store water supports the concept of a deep water cycle, in which oceanic water carried into the mantle at subduction zones can be retained at depth.
  — Divya Dubey, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
• If not, then a spin or two around the galaxy later, and the sun will have grown bright enough, and the water cycle amplified enough as a result, that ramped up rock weathering will draw carbon dioxide so low that even grasses can’t hold on.
  — Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
• Descaling involves running a vinegar or commercial descaling solution through the machine to flush out mineral buildup, then rinsing it out with multiple water cycles.
  — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
• Students could then be assigned a diagram of the water cycle with missing labels; filling in the blanks on the diagram offers them a hands-on activity to reinforce the information in the quiz.
  — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
• The set of farming practices that drives climate mitigation and restores soil health, biodiversity, and water cycles is upheld as a remedy for farmland degradation and chemical-intensive fiber farming.
  — Lucianne Tonti, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2026
• Warmer temperatures increase evaporation, drying out rivers, reservoirs, soil and vegetation, and speeding up Earth’s water cycle as more water goes back into the air for precipitation.
  — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• Students at Design 39 Campus learned about the water cycle, and Oak Valley Middle School’s afterschool program got lessons about bridges.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
• The European Space Agency, meanwhile, has a pair of HydryoGNSS satellites on board to monitor Earth's water cycle.
  — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 26 Nov. 2025
• The Pacific Northwest region, beginning hundreds of miles north of the Sierras at the Oregon border, sends no water to Los Angeles, aside from whatever arrives over time in the form of rain as part of the natural water cycle.
  — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Pesticides, pharmaceutical residues, industrial chemicals, microplastics, dyes, and PFAS continue to enter the water cycle.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
• Research has suggested that counterintuitive cooling in that area could be induced by aerosols, changes in land use or the water cycle, which may have intensified in certain places as a response to greenhouse gas emissions, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
• Although the water cycle is commonly understood as a surface process involving evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, geologic evidence shows that water is also exchanged between Earth’s surface and interior through subduction and volcanic activity.
  — Divya Dubey, Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
• Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to provide an understanding of the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
• Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to provide an understanding of the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
• Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to provide an understanding of the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
• Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to provide an understanding of the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 May 2026
• Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to provide an understanding of the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
• Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx) program, a small satellite designed to provide an understanding of the form, abundance, and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026