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

During the settler attack on Wednesday, many of the plastic cisterns and pipes were damaged and will be costly to replace.

From Seattle Times

She pointed to Tokyo, which has built up its flood defenses in part by constructing gargantuan underground cisterns to capture runoff and has put floodgates at subway entrances.

From New York Times

We also added rain capture cisterns to the downspouts in order to reuse rainwater for the landscaping.

From Los Angeles Times

In Nan Konsey, the earth's convulsions tore open the village's cement cisterns used to store drinking water and triggered landslides that interred residents' modest subsistence farms.

From Reuters