How to Use watercourse in a Sentence

watercourse

noun
  • Pesticides are sometimes responsible for contamination of watercourses.
  • Researchers hope to grow the moss in streams and other watercourses with high levels of arsenic.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The proposal called for the removal of 7 acres of wetlands and watercourses.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 14 Oct. 2019
  • This pollutes watercourses and fills lakes with algal blooms, despite new requirements to fence streams off from livestock.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The downpours swelled watercourses that already teetered near or above flood levels and left about half of the state under flood, wind and snow advisories.
    — Michael C. Bender, Orange County Register, 21 Feb. 2017
  • Walking behind her on a little bridge over a watercourse, Sohel had been free to look at her neck, her shoulders, and the blue ribbon in her black hair.
    — Daniyal Mueenuddin, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • For half a mile the whole watercourse was de-channelized, so that the spring water could bend through the park, alternating slow curves and fast runs with rippling currents.
    — Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Beyond the central lawn rises the Mount, a 30-foot hill down which cascades a dramatic watercourse.
    — Robin Soslow, Chron, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Bring back the reed and the reef, set the ice sheet back on its frozen plinth, tuck the restless watercourse into its bed, sit the glacier down on its highland throne, put the snow cap back on the mountain peak.
    — Simon Armitage, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The structure would be a hedge against climate change, designed to prevent the city's sewers from flushing into the watercourse as storms intensified.
    — Matthew Power, WIRED, 21 Apr. 2008
  • But bountiful downpours that started the year -- causing deadly flooding in some places -- have left the state in much better shape and watercourses are flowing.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • One of the Bayside gardens has a watercourse that runs through the property and abuts a deep ravine that drains into Lake Michigan.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June 2021
  • From the start, McLaren included an area for a Japanese-style garden, laying out a watercourse and paths.
    — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Father and son were swept away by a landslide in the city of Arequipa in a neighborhood built directly over an ancient natural watercourse.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • To spend much time along the route of any watercourse is to recognize the variety of objects either stuck along the banks, bobbing in a backwater, or flowing with the current.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
  • But governments and developers all along the watercourse are scrambling to exploit its natural and social resources.
    — Brian Eyler, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The ancestors of Omanis built these watercourses centuries ago.
    — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
  • At the same time, there are riparian natives — those that grow along watercourses — which may need regular attention in terms of water needs for many years after planting.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The Town of East Hartford treats major watercourses and wetlands in town that are prime breeding areas for mosquitoes.
    — Courant Community, 22 May 2017
  • Wheelabrator plans to monitor 26 test plots around the landfill, the old town landfill, and nearby watercourses for pollution.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Follow the watercourse from the inland valleys all the way out to Jenner, where the river spills into the Pacific, for a crash course in wine country’s allure.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Combing through tens of thousands of river images by hand, Dethier and colleagues pinpointed where sediment loads begin to rise along each watercourse.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The first section involves a steep climb aided by a metal cable, then a challenging zig zag up a dry watercourse leading to a level narrow track edging around the mountain, (only some of it is fenced).
    — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The commission voted to approve an amendment to language in the city’s zoning code that would require new construction to be set back from a property line edging the river or any other watercourse.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Recently surging watercourses have mellowed to tenable levels.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Some shallow watercourses that can only be run in times of high flow, like the Salmon River, are relatively narrow and prized by anglers, who may not be pleased to see a kayaker or rafter coming at them.
    — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • The reindeer’s migratory routes run through Arctic Scandinavia as densely as watercourses.
    — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Several sections of the Watercourse Ordinance state specific amounts of fines to be levied for violations of watercourse maintenance.
    — Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 25 July 2019
  • ProSkim then decided to dedicate part of each sale to Audubon, and to encourage Audubon’s membership to consider a green alternative to watercourses.
    — National Geographic, 10 Nov. 2016
  • The 4,000 square-foot main house's expansive grounds include a Zen garden sanctuary with Koi pond, waterfall and meandering watercourse.
    — David Caraccio, sacbee.com, 26 May 2017

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