watercourse
noun
wa·ter·course
ˈwȯ-tər-ˌkȯrs 
ˈwä-
1
: a natural or artificial channel through which water flows
2
: a stream of water (such as a river, brook, or underground stream)
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Examples of watercourse in a Sentence
Pesticides are sometimes responsible for contamination of watercourses.
the Erie Canal was the first watercourse to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes
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The Marin Municipal Water District completed Kent Lake in 1954 by enlarging a section of Lagunitas Creek’s watercourse and damming the creek’s flow.
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Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
But those boundaries had never stopped moving before or since -- sometimes for good reason, such as facilitating the movements of nomads or access to a watercourse.
—Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2013
The salmon were meant to be released in the Imnaha River, a 77-mile long watercourse in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
Living in White Plains, N.Y., in the 1980s, Mrs. Wallace galvanized a broad campaign to rescue the river, at the time an inaccessible 23-mile watercourse that was home to more flotsam, like the carcasses of junked cars and rusted refrigerators, than fauna.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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Jim Holden, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
But those boundaries had never stopped moving before or since -- sometimes for good reason, such as facilitating the movements of nomads or access to a watercourse.
—Jérôme Tubiana, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2013
The salmon were meant to be released in the Imnaha River, a 77-mile long watercourse in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 7 Apr. 2024
Living in White Plains, N.Y., in the 1980s, Mrs. Wallace galvanized a broad campaign to rescue the river, at the time an inaccessible 23-mile watercourse that was home to more flotsam, like the carcasses of junked cars and rusted refrigerators, than fauna.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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watercourse
noun
wa·ter·course
-ˌkō(ə)rs
-ˌkȯ(ə)rs
1
: a channel in which water flows
2
: a stream of water (as a river or brook)
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