reservoir

Example Sentences

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This enormous reservoir allows the planet to trap large amounts of sulfur within its interior over long periods of time.

From Science Daily

Shasta Lake, part of the federally managed Central Valley Project, is California’s largest manmade reservoir.

From Los Angeles Times

“I understood even back then that this, too, came from her deep reservoir of love for me,” Newsom writes in his book “Young Man in a Hurry.”

From Los Angeles Times

With temperatures running far above normal, snow in the Sierra Nevada is likely to melt weeks earlier than usual, reducing the amount of water that can be gradually released into reservoirs later in the year.

From BBC

The water infrastructure system that California built over the last century, she said, depends heavily on snow naturally storing water and then gradually releasing snowmelt into reservoirs to serve cities and farmlands.

From Los Angeles Times