irrigate
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Belly Begum, a 55-year-old farmer, struggles to irrigate her land during frequent power cuts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
We irrigate our lawns and other greenery, which is a boon to the beetles because they need moist landscapes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
A water source gets contaminated in some way, and that water is then used to irrigate a field.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Built to provide electricity for the southwestern United States and to irrigate Nevada, it was the great cause of Herbert Hoover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
“Others will move into the houses over here and begin to irrigate the land. You’ll see. We’re going to buy all this land back one way or another.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
But thousands of men were pouring into Redding to build the dam — a 602-foot concrete behemoth that irrigates millions of acres of Central Valley farmland — and they sure worked up an appetite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
A water system irrigates the plants via a nutrient substrate, a liquid fertiliser that replaces the nutrients and minerals naturally present in the soil.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
Nearby, water pumped from the Ogallala Aquifer irrigates fields of peanuts and cotton.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
And because most pumped groundwater irrigates crops, major declines in availability could lead to a global food crisis.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023
This overflow of the Nile irrigates the country for a long distance from its banks, and makes them very fruitful.
From What We Saw in Egypt by Anonymous
For golf courses this means the greens and tees can be irrigated but the fairways cannot.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Past outbreaks have occurred when people consumed fruits or vegetables irrigated with water contaminated by faeces.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Janssen explained that 200 units of nitrogen are used per acre of irrigated corn.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
The property features three creeks that “meander through the ranch for over five miles,” as well as irrigated meadows and “historic water rights irrigating 1,200 acres.”
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
In the old days, the winds swept through the irrigated plains around Jalalabad where farmers grew sugarcane, and impregnated the city's air with a sweet scent.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Italy’s longest river, the Po, is essential for irrigating farmland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
It's essential to the entire operation here: irrigating young plants, spraying fertilizers and plowing the soil.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, is part of a broader effort to understand the safety of irrigating crops with municipal wastewater.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 15, 2026
He had the cost of irrigating twice more over the summer due to prolonged hot weather.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
Men, irrigating in the silver fields, paused, leaning contemplatively on their shovel handles, to listen.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
Vocabulary lists containing irrigate
Civilizations and Peoples of the Fertile Crescent, Lessons 1–2
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Unit 1: Ecological Systems
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