Irrigate is an English word with synonyms like water or wet. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Irrigate meaning
- To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc.
- To clean (a wound) with a fluid.
Using Irrigate
- The main meaning on this page is: To supply (farmland) with water, by building ditches, pipes, etc. | To clean (a wound) with a fluid.
- Useful related words include: water, wet, treat, care for.
- In the example corpus, irrigate often appears in combinations such as: to irrigate, irrigate the, irrigate crops.
Context around Irrigate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Irrigate
- In this selection, "irrigate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, help, moisture, drip, crops, land and agricultural stand out and add context to how "irrigate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include californians and irrigate the lush and enough moisture irrigate every day. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "irrigate" sits close to words such as aau, abandons and affections, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with irrigate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Water plants thoroughly and less frequently whenever you irrigate the garden. (11 words)
Irrigate during daylight hours where possible, when foliage can dry quickly. (11 words)
The proposed dam was to irrigate 1,440 hectares of the area. (12 words)
Here’s how the cleanup works: Pumps dot the low-concentration outskirts of the chromium-6 plume, taking water from these areas to drip irrigate the fields of distractingly green alfalfa that make up a large portion of what used to be Hinkley. (43 words)
It contains a network of more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of canals and levees that protect the area from flooding, provide drinking water to millions of Californians and irrigate the lush agricultural region. (36 words)
It contains a network of more than 1,000 miles (1,600 ) of canals and levees that protect the area from flooding, provide drinking water to millions of Californians and irrigate the lush agricultural region. (35 words)
Can we install bore holes from the river to help irrigate the pitch? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Apart from this, the state government is also running schemes to irrigate the fields through micro irrigation and underground pipelines to save water,” the spokesperson said.
Can we install bore holes from the river to help irrigate the pitch?
Diverting streams and rivers to irrigate crops or provide drinking water may significantly extend the time microplastics spend in river catchments before they flow into our oceans, a new study reveals.
Drone image of the canal being built to use water from the Massacre River to irrigate land on the Maribaroux Plain.
The lack of rain in January and February had put stress on underground water to irrigate crops in the major wheat-growing states (Punjab and Haryana) this Rabi season.
The water from the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers is transferred to the dam, which is then used to irrigate agricultural land,” said Novitsky.
Farmers use the data to determine when to irrigate, apply fertilizer and other inputs, and to make other management decisions.
The proposed dam was to irrigate 1,440 hectares of the area.
To make sure your grass maintains enough moisture, irrigate every day if possible.
However, many farmers are now using water from these lakes to irrigate and water vegetable crops.
These are: fish-farming on the edges of the swamp (emiiga) and, once the water is restored in the swamp, then we use it to irrigate the nearby non-swamp land.
This has resulted in reduced access to water in households and farmers struggling to irrigate their crops and look after their livestock.
Water plants thoroughly and less frequently whenever you irrigate the garden.
Here’s how the cleanup works: Pumps dot the low-concentration outskirts of the chromium-6 plume, taking water from these areas to drip irrigate the fields of distractingly green alfalfa that make up a large portion of what used to be Hinkley.
In such cases, their energy quota will be much higher than what is required to irrigate the plot even at the current excessive levels of dosage.
Irrigate during daylight hours where possible, when foliage can dry quickly.
It contains a network of more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) of canals and levees that protect the area from flooding, provide drinking water to millions of Californians and irrigate the lush agricultural region.
It contains a network of more than 1,000 miles (1,600 ) of canals and levees that protect the area from flooding, provide drinking water to millions of Californians and irrigate the lush agricultural region.
Local farmers told the outlet that the polluted water was used to irrigate around 10 acres of wheat crop.
Magorn: ecmoRandomNumbers: There's also the million-gallon water tank that allows museum staff to irrigate a large area in case of a fire, Lapin said.
Common combinations with irrigate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to irrigate 42×
- irrigate the 18×
- irrigate crops 5×
- irrigate their 3×
- and irrigate 3×
- irrigate land 2×
- irrigate hectares 2×
- irrigate and 2×
- irrigate it 2×
- will irrigate 2×