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Example sentences for: basin

How can you use “basin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

This was the center of a thriving farming community which built dykes to reclaim marshland from the Minas Basin, grew fruit and vegetables, and raised cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry.
In the arena’s basin, they have left a ruined maze of cells and corridors that funnelled men and beasts to the slaughter.
Successive generations turned their attention towards the conquest of the Mediterranean basin.
I'd been doing that, going out just after sunset-- the sky a bowl of blue-green light, a basin filled with cold, still seawater.
The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.