cistern

Example Sentences

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And he evacuates his bowels into a cistern sunken in the middle of the living room.

From Washington Post

They also said that tree roots, pipes, cisterns or other buried objects made it impossible in some cases to dig down 18 inches.

From Los Angeles Times

One concern among engineers involves maintenance of hundreds of cisterns, dry wells and other features, many of which have filters and permeable bottoms that can get clogged over time.

From New York Times

Water will have to be gathered from natural rainwater cisterns in baobab trees while the trees' fruit will be among their energy sources.

From BBC

It’s possibly just my projection, but beneath his bright society portraits and sun-kissed flowers and landscapes, I sometimes detect an underground cistern of melancholy.

From Washington Post