Sentence examples for cistern that from inspiring English sources

Water comes from a 13,000-gallon cistern that stores rainwater.

"We're standing in an old cistern that was not being used," he said.

Her neighbors regularly invited the family over to swim in a pool created by water from an open-air cistern that was used to clean pigs.

His project had evolved in 1809, when The Commercial Advertiser carried an advertisement offering his "country seat" — with two acres of pasture and "a cistern that never fails" — along with lots on "Stewart Street".

A path of white quartz flagstones led past the fallen walls of the tiny church, the patch of graveyard and an opening into a cistern that collected rainwater for drinking.

At Casa da Cisterna they've created 11 sweet rooms from two village houses and turned the ancient cistern that once supplied the village's water into a swimming pool with panoramic country views.

A mountain stream rushed through town and was channeled to cisterns that offered cold, pure drinking water.

Ash gray inside and out, the dwellings in the sassi were hewn out of the natural caves and water cisterns that run through the chalky rock.

Mr. Tartaglione first sued the corporation over what he felt were unsanitary conditions like collecting rainwater in cisterns that is used for showers and washing dishes.

An intricate system of cisterns that uses both the well and rainwater serves the 10 houses he has developed, 5 of which are currently rented.

Residents and businesses are encouraged to place funnels on their roofs, which shunt rainwater down pipes and into cisterns that are lined with sand and pebbles, to filter impurities.