How do you use Cistern in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cisterna or sac, plus the exact meaning.
Cistern meaning
- A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
Using Cistern
- The main meaning on this page is: A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use. | In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank. | A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
- Useful related words include: cisterna, sac, water tank, tank.
- In the example corpus, cistern often appears in combinations such as: the cistern, cistern is, cistern and.
Context around Cistern
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cistern
- In this selection, "cistern" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gallon, ancient, mesa, failure, levels and reflecting stand out and add context to how "cistern" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 gallon cistern that collects and 000 gallon cistern will hold. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cistern" sits close to words such as abbe, abdollahian and abergavenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cistern
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Be happy your cistern is full. (6 words)
In the driest areas, it might require a cistern of convert. (11 words)
Its cistern was small, and the water quality was supposedly poor. (11 words)
It includes a large L-shaped pond with a capacity of convert and archaeological remains embedded in the gardens, among which is a Roman cistern from the second half of the 1st century BC. (34 words)
Webb explained that the Marshall Mesa cistern could be used to fight a slower-moving wildfire that started farther west, allowing firefighters to set up to stop it. (28 words)
The city hired Rosser International to create a design of the cistern, and Holder was only in charge of building what was on the drawings, O’Haren says. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Be happy your cistern is full.
Webb explained that the Marshall Mesa cistern could be used to fight a slower-moving wildfire that started farther west, allowing firefighters to set up to stop it.
The 200,000-gallon cistern will hold rainwater and eventually feed it into the city’s drainage system at half the rate.
Thirty-one years ago, pioneering experimental composer Pauline Oliveros descended into a huge underground cistern with two other musicians.
This looks like a simple cistern failure which should be easily fixed.
Crews were mobilized immediately to mitigate the cistern levels by using ancillary pumping equipment and to address the flooding clean up.
Lukas Anker leaping across the combination cistern-reflecting pool, which cools the air and irrigates the lawn.
Monica Beresford-Redman’s body was found naked in a sewer cistern in 2010 at a Cancun-area resort where the family was vacationing.
The city hired Rosser International to create a design of the cistern, and Holder was only in charge of building what was on the drawings, O’Haren says.
The museum kept intact an ancient cistern and arch, bringing visitors closer to colonial-era Intramuros.
A former, cistern used for drinking water storage, was discovered during excavation for the park.
City and Mt. Vernon archeologists will collaborate to excavate the well and cistern beginning Friday.
More than a million toilet flushing systems have been recalled in the US after a spate of cistern explosions caused injuries.
A cistern among the ruins near the Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu is also alleged to have been the Prison of Christ.
During his quest for Farore's Flame, Link aids Faron who had been injured while fighting Ghirahim and she leads him to the Ancient Cistern.
Fortin barometers use a variable displacement mercury cistern, usually constructed with a thumbscrew pressing on a leather diaphragm bottom.
In the driest areas, it might require a cistern of convert.
It includes a large L-shaped pond with a capacity of convert and archaeological remains embedded in the gardens, among which is a Roman cistern from the second half of the 1st century BC.
It is built over a 200,000 gallon cistern that collects filtered storm water from the roof.
Its cistern was small, and the water quality was supposedly poor.
Common combinations with cistern
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the cistern 3×
- cistern is 2×
- cistern and 2×
- ancient cistern 2×
- cistern as 2×
- or cistern 2×