Sentence examples for cistern to from inspiring English sources

But pushing down the joystick slowly releases water from the large cistern to the lower tank.

15 Put a brick in your toilet's cistern to reduce the amount of water used in flushing.

Others recommend placing bricks in their toilet cistern to reduce the amount of water used with each flush.

They plan to install a cistern to collect rainwater and a gray-water system that irrigates their backyard with bath water.

This has helped to keep the cost of installations low, from $500 for those who already had a cistern to $1,000 for those who do not.

Although rainfall is meagre, every home has its own cistern to catch runoff, and there is some cultivation of onions, yams, and sweet potatoes.

Clanny's lamp made use of bellows and a pair of water cisterns to maintain an isolated flame.

It had the comforts of a palace and enough storerooms and cisterns to withstand a long siege.

Situated a block from the beach, the building has several skylights, operable windows to let in fresh air and cisterns to collect rainwater for irrigation and bathroom plumbing.

The quartermaster-general employed a small team of civil engineers to inspect every aspect of the cemeteries, from the walls to the cisterns to the grave markers.

The only one of the city's ancient cisterns to continue serving its original function – as a reservoir of the Great Palace – until fairly recent times, Basilica Cistern testifies both to the richness of decoration prior to the sixth century and to the changes that transformed the city two centuries after its founding.