watergate
Example Sentences
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This is a very personal, literal watergate, and it has made Selleck the new face of celebrity drought-shaming, a term of our times for high-profile people who flout state-mandated efforts to curb water consumption.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2015
There it had been hoped to build a palace worthy of the Leauge of Nations with a magnificent watergate in memory of all the soldiers who were killed in the war.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were on an island and owned a watergate if we wanted to take a boat.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
The two women hid themselves in the reeds, and Pharaoh's daughter appeared with her attendants at the watergate.
From Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg
Then they let them through the watergate, and there, on the further side, were many gathered who thanked God for their deliverance, and begged tidings of them.
From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Henry Rider Haggard
