Sentence examples for into a cistern from inspiring English sources

Entering the city is like going into a cistern.

"They are voting their party ideology, they are voting with their party leadership — this has to stop," he says, disgust filling his voice like water into a cistern.

Although the torrent did not shatter the glass, its power was enough to force the front door shut and transform the home into a cistern in just 15 minutes.

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.

Under another part of the plan, the building roofs will direct the rainwater into a cistern and then into a pond so the water can be purified by plants before being used to irrigate the garden.

A 2nd century, swastika-flanked inscription on the back wall of the veranda translates: "A meritorious gift of a chapel cave by the distinguished Sulasadata, son of Heranika of Kalyana [modern Kalyan near Mumbai]." Between caves 5 and 6, on higher level, is an excavation originally intended either for a dwelling or for a seat, but converted into a cistern following discovery of a rock-fault.

The isolation put me in a cistern, dark and deep.

Was a crushed 1880s bicycle wheel tossed into a Brooklyn cistern after a carriage slammed into the rider during a blizzard?

During the rainy season, however, a parallel function kicked in, and the trench was transformed into a large cistern that filled to capacity and submerged the steps sometimes to the surface of the land.

By Christine Wiltz We finished boarding up the house on Sunday, the day before the expected hit, and my husband, Joe, prepared the attic with tarps and Visqueen in the hope of directing water leaks through the old slate roof into a copper cistern that hasn't had any use for close to a century.

A bit farther on she fumed about a plant nursery that had become a restaurant (without planning permission), a cistern that had morphed into a swimming pool, and the new villas tacked on to ancient monuments.