irrigate

How To Use irrigate In A Sentence

• Alpine tundra, alpine grassland, subirrigated meadows, and wetlands occur above timberline. Ecoregions of Idaho (EPA)
• Extensive wetlands in Sonora have been decimated by irrigated agriculture and urbanization.
• With this affidavit, the Hazarbuz tribe travel to the camping places by the specified paths, and while on their way and when they camp, they are not allowed to harm the arable and cultivated land of the Hazaras, nor may they [allow their animals to] graze on irrigated or unirrigated farm land and pasture lands belonging to the Hazaras. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
• The right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of this Act shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated, and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right.
• Irrigated rice agriculture is also practiced in numerous smaller river deltas and plains along the country's coast.
• Speeding along the route of the ancient Silk Road, we passed between irrigated fields of melons, cabbages and sunflowers, part of the great oasis stretching eastwards from Tashkent.
• But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• More than 70 per cent of Indians depend on farm incomes, and about 65 percent of the nation's farms are not irrigated, meaning they depend entirely on the rains that fall in intense bursts over the wet season. The Economic Times
• In October 2003, it found that a treatment known as pulsatile lavage -- which uses a spray-like device to irrigate and treat wounds -- was also dispersing acinetobacter from patients who carried the bug into the air via droplets. 'Superbugs' That Strike the Sickest Patients
• Farmers had been using underground water to irrigate cotton and paddy crops even though underground water was unfit for agricultural use due to high fluoride contents.