How do you use Watercourse in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like channel or stream, plus the exact meaning.
Watercourse meaning
Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
Using Watercourse
- The main meaning on this page is: Any channel, either natural or artificial, through which water flows.
- Useful related words include: channel, stream, body of water, water.
- In the example corpus, watercourse often appears in combinations such as: the watercourse, watercourse in, watercourse is.
Context around Watercourse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Watercourse
- In this selection, "watercourse" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, transboundary, rocky, roig, giving, near and dating stand out and add context to how "watercourse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a rocky watercourse near her and a small watercourse in comparison. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "watercourse" sits close to words such as agba, agios and agnc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with watercourse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The length of the watercourse is convert. (7 words)
Tao: The Watercourse Way with Al Chung-liang Huang (Pantheon, 1977). (11 words)
The Helmand River is considered to be an international or transboundary watercourse. (12 words)
Unlike other major rivers in the state, it has no hydropower dam built over it in the initial stretch until it reaches Dak Pathar near the state capital since it has a small watercourse in comparison to Bhagirathi, Alaknanda or Mandakini. (41 words)
Immediately below a weir the bed of the watercourse was excavated to create what was known as a 'stilling pool' to slow down the wash from the flow of water and prevent erosion to the banks. (36 words)
M.C. Escher 's lithograph Waterfall (1961) depicts a watercourse that flows in a zigzag along the long sides of two elongated Penrose triangles, so that it ends up two stories higher than it began. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
California has submitted a rival plan for use of the Colorado River, after six other states accused it of refusing to cooperate in the battle over usage of a dwindling major US watercourse.
Immediately below a weir the bed of the watercourse was excavated to create what was known as a 'stilling pool' to slow down the wash from the flow of water and prevent erosion to the banks.
Inspectors also found the compost wasn't covered during the rainy season, allowing leachate to escape and enter the watercourse.
The Helmand River is considered to be an international or transboundary watercourse.
This incident was identified during April and May last year using remote telemetry in the watercourse.
Houses in Alexandra Gardens now sit on the site of the millpond which was fed by run-off water from St Boniface Down, the watercourse giving Spring Hill its name.
If Wessex Water laid the pipes beneath the watercourse without removing the bridge first, it would lead to severe structural damage to the bridge, making it unsafe to cross.
Leah Martinez, 37, filmed the stream of volcanic debris flowing down a rocky watercourse near her village of Masulog, which is also close to the volcano.
The Tiverton Leat, a man-made watercourse dating back centuries, has long played a crucial role in the town's history, providing water to residents and sustaining local agriculture.
This will improve water quality by reducing nutrients, sediment and animal waste from reaching the watercourse.
However, Didcot Town Council has objected to the application and does not think the plans to change the watercourse under the development are satisfactory and said that the amendment does more hard than good.
The removal of weeds and vegetation from Cabo Roig watercourse in Orihuela Costa will start at the beginning of June.
Unlike other major rivers in the state, it has no hydropower dam built over it in the initial stretch until it reaches Dak Pathar near the state capital since it has a small watercourse in comparison to Bhagirathi, Alaknanda or Mandakini.
WaterCourse really needed new leadership, he adds, and he predicts that City, O' City will also benefit from a refresh.
In the United States, a stream is classified as a watercourse less than convert wide.
M.C. Escher 's lithograph Waterfall (1961) depicts a watercourse that flows in a zigzag along the long sides of two elongated Penrose triangles, so that it ends up two stories higher than it began.
Tao: The Watercourse Way with Al Chung-liang Huang (Pantheon, 1977).
The length of the watercourse is convert.
The only watercourse in Casablanca is oued Bouskoura, citation a small seasonal creek that until 1912 reached the Atlantic Ocean near the actual port.
The watercourse ran from a point on the Ventura River about ½ mile north of the remaining ruins and carried the water to holding tanks behind the San Buenaventura Mission, a total of about convert.
Common combinations with watercourse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the watercourse 11×
- watercourse in 3×
- watercourse is 2×