Sentence examples for there were basins from inspiring English sources

There were basins for washing with flannels but the stoves used for heating the water were often broken.

There were basins of fruit and bushels of washed small vegetables, and fragrant tureens of cooked compounds I lacked the learning to identify.

Inland there are basins of structural origin, such as the Plain of Drámas (Drama).

Throughout the northern, western, and central sections of Kuwait, there are desert basins, which fill with water after winter rains; historically these basins formed important watering places, refuges for the camel herds of the Bedouin.

"Moominmamma put the fat for frying the pancakes in the bathtub because there weren't enough basins, and then she carried up eleven enormous jars of raspberry juice from the cellar.

But in a statement released by the Labour Party, Dr Hughes said there were "thousands of basins" across the globe with these kinds of unconventional reserves of oil and gas in place.

"There are similar basins in larger and smaller sizes, but the only one that's comparable is in the Shanghai museum," Mr. Yang said.

There are oceanic basins farther north that are as much as 14,800 feet (4,500 metres) deep, defined by oceanic rises and often marked by ranges of abyssal hills.

It is triangular in shape and bears six cusps that surround the middle of the tooth, where there are three basins (fossae).

There are two basins with phylogenetic signatures that are similar to that expected under the founder effect with dispersal across New Guinea.

Thus there are evolutionary basins of attraction that living organisms will tend to evolve toward.