irrigate - use in sentences

Object

  • hectare: A major project in the basin is aiming to irrigate 25,000 hectares of land for smallholder farming.
  • wound: O'Neill D. ( 2002 ) ' Can tap water be used to irrigate wounds in A&E?
  • farmland: We drive through occasional and incredibly lush areas of irrigated farmland and fruit orchards.
  • rice: Behind the dikes, two crops of irrigated rice can be grown, using water pumped in from the water ways.

Modifying Another Word

  • thoroughly: First aid treatment Eye Contact: Irrigate thoroughly with water for at least 10 minutes.
  • copiously: Eye contact: Irrigate copiously with clean, fresh water for at least 10 minutes, holding the eyelids apart.

Noun phrase with adjective complement

  • adjacent: The life-giving Nile pours across the map, feeding an emerald ribbon of irrigated fields adjacent to villages shaded by date palms.

Modifying Another Word

  • well: It is secluded from roads, tranquil, well irrigated and the dwellings offer stables and hay storage.
  • then: Eye injuries All eye injuries must be irrigated thoroughly then treated at the Medical Center or local hospital.
  • automatically: Please note the lawns and plants are irrigated automatically with river water.
  • fully: Welcome to North London's premier fully irrigated live music festival.

Preposition: with

  • water: Chances are pretty good it was irrigated with sewage water.
  • solution: The wound is irrigated with an antiseptic solution such as dilute chlorhexidine or dilute povidone iodine.

Preposition: by

  • water: It was all about drops of water and acres of land that can be irrigated by this water.
  • river: Hundreds of thousands more people were adversely affected as their grazing and agricultural lands are no longer irrigated by the river 's annual flood.

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