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How to use catchment in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Catchment means any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water. Example: “Every building seems to be positioned to maximize water catchment.”

Examples of catchment by meaning

nounAny structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.

  • Every building seems to be positioned to maximize water catchment.2015 fall, Michael R. Walker, “Monumental Task”, in BYU Magazine, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, →OCLC, archived from the original...

nounA catchment area, or the people it serves.

  • The publication of regular newsletters providing updates of floodplain management activities and distributed to individual residents in the catchment is an effective means of keeping the community informed.2003, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, “Choosing and Integrating Participation Tools and Techniques...
  • The two councils say the station would have a population catchment of 70,000 from local towns and villages.2020 January 2, Graeme Pickering, “Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails”, in Rail, page 61

verbTo divide into catchment areas.

  • the catchmenting of mental health services

More sentences with catchment

  • One obvious result is that the catchment areas for dams in SEQ are not a patch on the Sydney catchment areas.2008, Paul Spearritt, “Chapter 2: The water crisis in Southeast Queensland: How desalination turned the area into carbon emission heaven”…. From the entry seq
  • For most catchments, first flushes must be expected.2006, Zaini Ujang, M. Henze, Municipal Wastewater Management in Developing Countries, →ISBN. From the entry first flush
  • In many environments, evapotranspiration makes up a larger proportion of the catchment water balance than the stream discharge.2004, Keith J. Beven, Rainfall - Runoff Modelling: The Primer, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 59. From the entry evapotranspiration
  • Many of the Sierra Nevada fans have associated perennial streams fed by rainfall, snowmelt or glacial icemelt in the catchments.2002, Ireneo Peter Martini, Victor R Baker, Guillermina Garzón, Flood and megaflood processes and deposits: recent and ancient examples. From the entry icemelt
  • Wealthy parents buying into preferred catchment areas is nothing new and for years families have been moving to Kent for the grammar schools.2023 October 14, Alexandra Goss, “The school run”, in FT Weekend (House & Home section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry catchment area
  • Hazard creep is caused by changes in a catchment that may result in changes to the hazard potential classification for a dam.2020 December 3, Marcus J. Wishart, Satoru Ueda, John D. Pisaniello, Joanne L. Tingey-Holyoak, Kimberly N. Lyon, Esteban Boj García…. From the entry hazard creep
  • All the river banks of the western parts of Bangla have such places which include the catchment areas of Mayurakhi, Ajay, Banka, Damodar, Dwarakeswar, Kangsabati, etc.”2021, Dibyendu Chakraborty, Origin of Bangla Seventh Part Ghoti Children of the Land of Five Male Rivers. From the entry Bangla
  • As well as the new station, the funding will allow the building of the Chelmsford North East bypass, enhancing access to and the catchment area of the station.2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18. From the entry catchment area
  • In this study, we propose to use metacommunity theory as a conceptual framework to better understand how river network structure influences the spatial organization of aquatic communities in glacierized catchments.2015 August 27, “Invertebrate Metacommunity Structure and Dynamics in an Andean Glacial Stream Network Facing Climate Change”, in PLOS…. From the entry glacierized

Meaning of catchment

  1. noun Any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.
  2. noun A catchment area, or the people it serves.
  3. verb To divide into catchment areas.

Full definition of catchment

Questions about catchment in a sentence

How do you use catchment in a sentence?
Catchment is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Every building seems to be positioned to maximize water catchment.”
What is a short sentence with catchment?
“the catchmenting of mental health services”
What does catchment mean?
Catchment means any structure or land feature which catches and holds water; the collection of such water.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catchment (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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