How to Use watershed in a Sentence

watershed

noun

• The show will not air until after the nine o'clock watershed.
• The last two years have been watersheds for the Range Rover.
  — Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 2 Aug. 2023
• The watershed’s rivers and streams are home to over 30 species of fish.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• What are some threats to, the Mobile Bay, to the estuary, to the watershed here in the area?
  — Margaret Kates | [e-mail], al, 13 Feb. 2023
• 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
• The watershed is made up of 102 square miles in the Sandy River basin near Mount Hood.
  — oregonlive, 6 Nov. 2019
• 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
• 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
• More good news is that all service roads and trails are open in the watershed.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
• 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
• The number of wells drilled in the watershed has increased.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• The relatively short watershed’s head is in the foothills just north of the big Lake.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2020
• As for the health of habitats across the 6,600-square-mile watershed, there were mixed results.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 20 Feb. 2020
• Both have since been removed, and the restoration of the watershed has started.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
• The free event will talk about flood risk, watershed and flood forecasts.
  — Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2019
• The overlook sits 1,400 feet above the New River and its watershed.
  — Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2021
• In the Williams area, this includes the Bill Williams Mountain watershed.
  — Scott Craven, azcentral, 11 July 2018
• For many China specialists in the West, the speech was a watershed.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• That strike was a watershed, because of the way the public rallied around the teachers, Wong said.
  — Soumya Karlamangla, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• About 65% of the water that flows from the watershed today goes to operate the locks.
  — Karina Garcia, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
• About 65% of the water on the Great Salt Lake watershed goes to agriculture.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Feb. 2022
• But around the 2030s, there's a sudden uptick in the watersheds that are hitting their limits.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2019
• Between the two watersheds, there’s about 1.1 million acre-feet massed and ready to pour toward the desert.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• The basin, which is home to Ash Meadows, is a vast desert watershed that feeds the Amargosa River.
  — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
• The pending update will set rules for the Sacramento River watershed and the rest of the delta.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• On Monday, the center filed the notice of intent to sue over the issue for a third time, in the Verde watershed.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 17 Mar. 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
• Five of the traps are in the Black Warrior watershed, and three are on tributaries to the Cahaba.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 10 Oct. 2020
• Each of these Justices has what could be called signature cases, with some splashy opinion reaching to be a watershed.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, New Yorker, 15 May 2025