How to Use basin in a Sentence

basin

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  • After the final rinse, drain the water and gently press down on the tote in the basin to push out as much water as possible.
    — Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In the Mississippi basin, those animals would have been bison.
    — Sarah Laskow, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2022
  • The Indus River basin, which runs through Sindh, is the largest contiguous irrigation system in the world, fed by glacial melt.
    — Nazish Brohi, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Clem helped draft the legislation protecting the basin as well as the subsequent bill creating the state assistance program for the developers.
    — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The desert, which sits in a basin almost 300 feet below sea level, gets an average of just two inches of rain a year, and when precipitation does come, flash floods are common.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Sixteen of the 20 hurricanes over the past two seasons in the Atlantic basin have undergone rapid intensification.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • That refers to the five basins where water can be hauled to areas within an AMA.
    — Alexandra Hardle, The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
  • There haven’t been any hurricanes so far in the Atlantic basin in 2023.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 24 June 2023
  • Others found their way to the basin as adults, fell in love with the country sunsets and never left.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
  • Just a few isolated briny ponds were left in the landlocked basin.
    — science.org, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The nearby wash basins are worse: no water and human feces on the floor.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Researchers measure the water that flows off the hillside and into the basin.
    — Erica Gies, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Unlike many areas, this basin has no outflow to the sea.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The river basin is about 230 miles southwest of Shanghai.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 May 2024
  • The states in the lower basin—California, Arizona and Nevada—shoulder the greatest water cuts to account for the billions of gallons of water lost to evaporation and transport.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

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