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Example sentences for: cistern

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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.
Duchamp's urinal was a pis aller after which there should have been silence, broken only by the occasional gurgle from the cistern.
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.
Here you can see part of a large Arab water cistern and other local finds.
The cistern hall contains a circular cistern still full of water, which is now inhabited by a population of turtles.