cistern
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They traced the sound back to the cistern and climbed up about seven feet to its small opening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
“The cistern on my toilet has been constantly refilling and making a hissing noise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Replacing a toilet cistern can cost anywhere from $160 to $500, so you were charged at the lower end of that scale.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026
Some people watched, horrified and weeping, from their windows, but a surprising number kept their heads and were forming a bucket line from the town’s cistern atop the city hall to a nearby burning building.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
School children have outings to waterworks to understand how precious the resource is, and households have embraced water-saving devices for shower heads and toilet cisterns.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
They plan to put plants into the built-in containers above their backyard cisterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Farmers in tractors tugged water cisterns and aimed hoses at the blaze.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
When it runs out, he jumps from one rooftop to another to gather buckets of water from nearby cisterns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
It was always hard labor—digging cisterns, building roads, hauling bricks, crushing rocks.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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