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cistern

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as in tub

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Recent Examples of cistern In 1995, with water service only two or three days a week, Rodriguez purchased and paid to install a 600-gallon cistern for about $1,000. — Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2026 Once through the entrance, visitors make their way down a narrow flight of stone steps before abruptly entering the vast site of the cistern. — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Aug. 2026 In a pit below the stage was a cistern containing dead rodents. — Zander Sherman, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026 In both Wilde’s play and Strauss’s opera, Salome is obsessed with Jokanaan (John the Baptist), who is being held as a political prisoner in a cistern, his disembodied voice floating around the stage. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for cistern

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While some jumped in the creek as a sort of cold plunge, others warmed up in the hot tub, and watched the creek rushing past faster than the day before thanks to the rainfall.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Oct. 2026
Wince’s advice is to purchase spackle or a small tub of drywall compound and fill the holes and cracks with that.

— Lee Wallender, The Spruce, 15 Oct. 2026

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Some carts were stacked high with metal steamers, while others held vats of boiling water to blanch tender stalks of gai lan.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
But the film most shoots the moon on the performance of Jeremy Strong, whose Zuckerberg is what would happen if The Truman Show’s Christof fell in a vat of acid and emerged as a cross between The Joker and Sheldon Cooper.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026

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