How to Use basin in a Sentence

basin

noun

• Smoke is forecast to engulf most of the Los Angeles basin.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2025
• Among the options is a method of aerial snow mapping, which gives precise snow measurements across an entire basin.
  — Brittany Peterson, ajc, 4 May 2022
• Back then, some parts of the basin were surrounded by citrus orchards, and fires in the mountains would burn out in the orchards before reaching homes.
  — Jon Keeley, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
• Somewhere in the Colorado River basin, someone will have to go without water.
  — Nick Bowlin, Outside Online, 4 May 2022
• The firm shares its name with a parasitic fish, native to the Amazon River basin, that drains the blood of larger fish.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• More broadly, there is tension between tribes’ efforts to claim water that is rightfully theirs at a time when everyone in the basin must cut back.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• Rainwater will collect in the basin, be detained and then released gradually.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
• Replenishing Powell means taking water from somewhere else in the basin.
  — Nick Bowlin, Outside Online, 4 May 2022
• Still, severe drought is only affecting around 6% of the state, mainly in the fringes of the Colorado River basin.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 2 Jan. 2025
• Water in the Bonneville basin over geologic time has risen and fallen repeatedly.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022
• The apron ties were touching the inside and outside of the handwashing sink basin, and the ties were touched by production employees' hands that handle food and food contact surfaces.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
• The coastal areas of the Mediterranean basin have always been prone to extreme precipitation, especially in places where there are mountains near the sea.
  — Samuel Granados, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
• Seemingly connected to a deep trough, this lava is similar in color to that of the Caloris basin and the Borealis Planitia further to its north.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
• The drone took off with a whir and flew to the far side of the basin.
  — Anna Canny, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• In the first clip, Wren was held over the basin as his full head of hair was washed.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2023
• In the first clip, Wren is held over the basin as his full head of hair gets washed.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• There were 21 named storms in the Atlantic basin last year.
  — Alyssa Lukpat, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• Sit lighter-weight pots in a basin of water and let the water wick to the top.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
• And recharge basins such as the one on Lebow’s land aren’t the only way to sink water.
  — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
• Don't forget to spray inside the basin of the sink as well as the faucet and handles.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2024
• But the basin may be down to its last few years of extractable water.
  — Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
• The city also would get 5.76 acres along the north shore of the lagoon’s outer basin.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
• Clear trash and debris from storm drains and catch basins along your block.
  — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
• The basin is shared between Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• With the imposition of the Morales Project, the water basin at the foot of the volcano is at risk.
  — Christina Noriega, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• So far, the seven states in the basin have been unable to reach agreement on the guidelines.
  — Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2024
• So when the glacier is great enough to lift the glacier, the water escapes the basin and flows downstream, Jacobs said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• No land sat lower than this basin, the terminus of the Tule, Kaweah, Kings and Kern rivers.
  — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The 405 Freeway is the main artery linking the western part of the valley to the Los Angeles basin.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• At the top of the list is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa basin in Pakistan, north of Islamabad.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Feb 2025