Sentence examples for cisterns from inspiring English sources

Yellow tubes connect together a number of tanks and cisterns, around which coloured water can be pumped.

They drop litter, which is harmful ("Cattle are dumb they'll eat plastic water bottles") and break cisterns trying to get fresh water.

Intelligence officers are trained to spot these, in places that are easy to visit and hard to observe (cisterns and waste bins in public lavatories, or under a heating grating in a church pew, for example).

Also distinctive were the underground cisterns, of which more than 30 are known in Constantinople today.

In 1836 it was badly restored, and 100 years later its foundations began to slip into previously undiscovered Turkish cisterns, revealing the 6th-century foundations of Peisistratus's earlier shrine to Artemis Epipyrgidea (Artemis on the Tower).

Rainwater was stored in cisterns, and vendors sold water in the streets.

The underground aqueduct thought to have been built in the time of King Hezekiah (8th century bce) is still extant, and many reservoirs and rainwater cisterns date from ancient times.

Lead has two main uses in which some artistic purpose may be served: in architecture, as a material for roof coverings, gutters, piping, and cisterns; and in decorative art, as a material for sculpture and applied ornament.

These cisterns assured an adequate supply of water even when the aqueducts that fed the city were cut by an attacking enemy.

The closed cisterns, of which there are more than 80 remaining, include one of the most beautiful and mysterious structures of Istanbul, the Basilica Cistern, known in Turkish as the Yerebatan Sarayı ("Underground Palace") or Yerebatan Sarnıcı ("Underground Cistern"), near Hagia Sophia; its 336 columns rise from the still, black waters to a vaulted roof.

Roman engineers developed architectural uses for roof coverings, masonry, gutters, water pipes, and cisterns that were continued for centuries.