Sentence examples for a cistern of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "a cistern of" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a large container or reservoir for holding liquid, often water, in a metaphorical or literal sense. Example: "The library was a cistern of knowledge, filled with books and resources on every subject imaginable."
The prey is attracted to the large showy leaves by nectar, and it slips from a treacherous lip into the pitcherlike hollow leaf, which in reality is a cistern of digestive liquid from which there is no escape.
Rather, it is closely associated with a cistern of endoplasmic reticulum.
Broers [ 20] described "modified mitochondria" in the periphery of the Psalteriomonas lanterna cells, odd organelles that were surrounded by a cistern of rough endoplasmatic reticulum (rough ER).
Households were eligible for a cistern from P1MC if they were: low income families (defined as an income of less than half of minimum wage), living full time in the rural area, without water security (i.e. did not have a cistern of least a 2,000 L capacity), with one or more children less than five years of age or elderly people (more than 60 years old).
All we needed to do was install a roof on the spring-fed reservoir from which we were drawing water, build a cistern on the other side of the community to store the water we were drawing, and lay down the PVC pipes needed to carry the water.
The most efficient scenario is combined rainwater harvesting on rooftops with a cistern capacity of 78.5 mm and permeable pavement installed on 75% of non-busy roads and other impervious surfaces.
She showed them a ceramic cistern of water, a small calabash dipping cup.
And he woulda gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for them pesky kids (and a cistern full of food dye).
Another inscription in the recess of the second cistern reads translated: "A meritorious gift of a cistern by Lachhinika (wife) of Torika the Na daka [and] Nadabalika, wife of Isimulasami".
Water mains breaking during the earthquake contributed to the problem, which is why San Francisco now has a huge cistern of water buried under every intersection in town, just in case.
In the palm groves below the village of Tamalokt is a cistern, a place of utter peace, where scarlet dragonflies skid above the water and the tops of olive trees sway against cerulean sky.
