cistern
Example Sentences
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The court heard Nath - after realising he had been "rumbled" - threw the bottle of Madagascar vanilla extract into a toilet cistern but it was later recovered by police.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
“When I drive through my neighborhood, there are plenty of little park spaces, public spaces, where you could put a really large cistern that firefighters could tap into,” Quinn said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
Water to fight fires from a pool or from rainwater stored in tanks or a cistern.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
Near the village of Jaun, a construction crew was laying pipes to deliver electricity and water from a new cistern to six local farms.
From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2024
In the end, I decided that the cistern would make a good hiding place, at least for a while.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
