Cisterns is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CISTERNS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CISTERN, an artificial reservoir for storing water, esp. one in the roof-space of a house etc.
• a tank for storing water, especially one supplying taps or as part of a flushing toilet.
• an underground reservoir for rainwater.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a water tank

Words related to CISTERNS

cistern9

How to use CISTERNS in a sentence

• Another noteworthy feature of the summit of the hill is a collection of stone cisterns of varying ages, still containing water.
• When the cisterns became dry it was necessary to place the steamer at the river and pump water through over two thousand feet of hose.
• At this place they take in water, which is drawn from wells that are fed by springs, and which is preferred to that which is procured from cisterns or tanks.
• But such men are the cisterns, not the fountains, of Science.
• The consequence was, that the water in the cisterns was gradually changed.
• The subterranean cisterns, under the court-yard, amazed me with their extent and magnitude.
• As we ascended again into the hill-country, I observed several traces of cisterns in the bottoms of ravines, which collect the rains.
• In the Place of the Cisterns, I stopped to take a drink of the cool water of the Darro, which is brought thither by subterranean channels from the hills.
• At many of the wells, and cisterns also, a man is placed, whose business it is to draw water for the weary travellers.
• In the rainy season a large quantity may always be obtained from cisterns, or holes, which were observed naturally formed upon the surface of the rocks.
• Wealthy families have cisterns or tanks in their yards, to receive the rain from the roofs.
• During the present season many of these cisterns have been dry, and the supply of water has been entirely inadequate to the wants of the people.
• But this poor man had many enemies in the city, chiefly among the makers of cisterns, who hated him for his words.
• First, one, then another, we drain all cisterns, and waxing greater by all these supplies, we crave a better and a more abundant food.
• But Oh, I forsook the fountain of living waters, and hewed out broken cisterns, that could hold no water.
• The two boys drove to town that evening and Hiram sought out a man who contracted to move houses, clean cisterns and wells, and various work of that kind.
• Beyond that, the fire department depended on the cisterns of private houses for the water to subdue the flames.
• The only defence for such location of the bath-room and cisterns is, the convenience and privacy of access to them, by the females of the family.
• CHAPTER IX BROKEN CISTERNS Time dragged wearily on in that afflicted household, and Everlasting Pearl walked about with a heavy heart.
• The governor and garrison fled in panic haste to the other castle, while the terrified people threw their treasures into wells and cisterns.
• They require water but once a day, and, where they cannot get it from perennial streams, they find it in the innumerable wells, fountains and cisterns.
• Heavy, round bronze lids, sunk in the stones of the pavement, covered the cisterns of the palace.
• Not far from the Hippodrome are the great cisterns with the thousand and one pillars.
• At the foot of this mountain we turned off to the left towards the three cisterns of Solomon.
• But water is scarce, and the Arbol Santo, a sort of gigantic laurel standing alone on a rocky ledge, did actually supply two cisterns, one for men and the other for cattle.
• They would keep away from the barn, the live stock, the railroad, the ponds, and the cisterns.
• I have distributed water by measure, but now the cisterns are empty, and women and young men fall down in the streets, and there is no water in Bethulia.
• But Euenor praises water from cisterns, and says that the best is that from the cistern of Amphiaraus, when compared with that from the fountain in Eretria.
• One day a frightened centurion reported to Caesar that all the cisterns used by the troops were becoming flooded with sea-water.
• The value of cisterns, of reservoirs, is past, when a man is seated beside an ever-flowing spring.
• This mode being for obvious reasons impracticable, cisterns are made, and rain conducted to them through pipes leading from the roof.
• Therefore all tanks and cisterns should be inspected regularly, and any accidental source of impurity must be looked out for.

Similar words containing CISTERN without suffix s

cistern9 cisterna10 cisternae11 cisternal11

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