Sentence example with the word 'cistern'

cistern

artificial lake, dike, freshwater lake, laguna, linn, millpond, plash, puddle, stagnant water, tank, water hole

Definition n. a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid

Last update: July 27, 2015

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The leakage in the cistern has been repaired.   [noun]

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The cistern may be on the roof, in the attic space or within the dwelling.   [noun]

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The materials used for the cistern remained the same, although some tanks were made of vitreous china.   [noun]

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A cistern had been dug out of the rocky soil of the plateau which the wall enclosed, and care was taken to keep it constantly filled with water.   [noun]

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The molasses is then carried from the cistern into the upper story again, and by another process converted into brown sugar.   [noun]

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A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground.   [noun]

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Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like the flue of a chimney, or the pipe of a cistern.   [noun]

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In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories ancient cistern pipes of lead.   [noun]

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At this point in the Haram enclosure there is an enormous underground cistern, known as the Great Sea, and this may possibly have been the source of water supply for the Greek garrison.   [Please select]

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There were another cistern and more piles of firewood, otherwise it was empty.   [Please select]

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When poisoning is attempted, remove or cover all water vessels, even the well or cistern.   [Please select]

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