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Example sentences for: cistern

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Duchamp's urinal was a pis aller after which there should have been silence, broken only by the occasional gurgle from the cistern.
It has five sides, and the upper floor, decorated with Romanesque arches under a timber roof, was used for assemblies, while the lower floor served as a water cistern.
The cistern hall contains a circular cistern still full of water, which is now inhabited by a population of turtles.
Here you can see part of a large Arab water cistern and other local finds.
Hidden beneath trapdoors on either side of the aisle are a Moorish cistern 15 m (50 ft) deep and a collection of monks’ bones in the ossuary.