How to Use water table in a Sentence

water table

noun

• Heavy rainfall has caused the water table to rise.
• Hansen said the water table has dropped 40-50 feet in the last few decades.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2023
• So today, the water table is high enough to flood the tombs.
  — National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• The tree’s root system will reach down to the water table in roughly 8 to 18 months.
  — Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• The roots of the cerrado plants went deep, reaching down to the water table.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• Since his first season, Cameron has seen the water table drop by a foot or more each year.
  — Susie Cagle, Wired, 12 Apr. 2022
• Higher up on the road, the ground water table is much deeper.
  — Alex Harris and Joey Flechas, miamiherald, 28 June 2018
• Over time, changes in the Nile River made the water table beneath the pyramids rise.
  — National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• But as pumping lowered the water table, the trees soon died.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• That helps give it a chance to seep into the water table and be available from wells during the dry months.
  — Jeremy White, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• This water table is easy to clean and is a good option for kids who are 18 months and older.
  — Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 6 Mar. 2024
• The city is lowering the water table about a meter a year, causing the ground to sink as well.
  — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2018
• There are also swings above the water and a water table.
  — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2020
• The bog’s shape seemed to be essentially governed by the physics of the water table.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2024
• At the railroad bridge over the creek the town had built a dam to maintain the water table in the municipal wells near by.
  — Don Holm, Outdoor Life, 3 Apr. 2023
• But Take Note: The water table has only one drain plug, and the mailbox is lacking a back.
  — Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 16 Oct. 2023
• And the deeper the water table falls, the more energy costs increase to pump the water out.
  — AZCentral.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Saiter is anxious the farms’ rapid water use could push the water table too low for the town well to draw safe water from.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022
• Kilauea had a major eruption last year that caused the collapse of the crater to below the water table.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2019
• The lack of rain combined with the summer’s extreme heat dried out wetlands and reduced the water table’s depth, the city said.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• This has helped reduce the depletion of the water table.
  — Shivam Vij, Quartz India, 7 Nov. 2019
• When the trees choke the river like that, the underground water table rises closer to the ground and can flood and kill the crops on nearby farms.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2020
• The soil was saturated with so much rain from the earlier storm that the water table was still high by the time Maria struck.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
• But many of the bricks are crumbling, and as the water table rises, entire walls are in danger of falling.
  — New York Times, 6 Feb. 2021
• But a lower water table could cause some springs and creeks to dry, rare trees and plants to die, and wildlife that depend on them to move or perish.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• In temperate regions, beaver dams affect everything from the height of the water table to the kinds of shrubs and trees that grow.
  — Sharon Levy, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Dec. 2022
• The others have wells, though many of these have gone dry as the water table has fallen by hundreds of feet in some places after years of drought.
  — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2023
• Rain might not raise the water table much, says Smith, a biologist who manages the refuge.
  — Tammy Webber, Chron, 9 Sep. 2021
• My father was an Episcopal pastor at a place that was a little low on the water table.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 3 July 2024
• The final environmental impact statement from 1986 was based on the assumption that the mine would not reach below the water table and, therefore, would remain dry.
  — Trilce Estrada Olvera, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024