Reservoir

//ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ//

"Reservoir" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The town is supplied with water from a reservoir in the hills.

As the iron was heating up, Mary poured distilled water into the reservoir to make steam.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest country in the Congo Basin and home to a massive and largely inaccessible rainforest that is Earth’s second largest reservoir of carbon in vegetation, second only to the Amazon Basin rainforest.

The flood-prone Yangtze river, which runs from Yunnan in the southwest to Jiangsu and Shanghai on the east coast, has seen a massive increase in water volumes, causing flooding in many of its tributaries and bringing water volumes in the giant Three Gorges reservoir close to record levels.

Humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere at a rate far greater than it is removed by natural processes, creating a long-lived reservoir of the gas in the atmosphere and oceans that is driving the climate to a warmer and warmer state.

The final factor that will determine whether COVID-19 can be defeated once and for all is whether it lives in another animal, known as a reservoir, from which it can reinfect people.

During the summer we see seaplanes fill up with water on the reservoir to contain forest fires.

How long did it take to fill the Taksebt Dam reservoir in northeastern Algeria?

The Algerian dam of Taksebt has a deep reservoir.

There's a reservoir near where I live.

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Notwithstanding the way in which she had, in what she termed "the delicacy of her feelings," contrived to pour the receipts of the fancy fair into one reservoir, the duke and several other persons complimented Lady Anne very much on the superior beauty and value of her articles,...

The vehicle is fitted with Westinghouse electro-pneumatic brake, and also a Northey exhauster with vacuum chamber and auxiliary reservoir adjacent to the guard's compartment for use when hauling vehicles equipped with vacuum brake gear.

Within a printer cartridge, ink is typically stored in an ink reservoir and is deposited onto media through a print head.

To replace them and also to provide a reservoir for relief trains, a certain amount of spare stock must be kept on hand.

The goal is to draw on reservoirs of strength that defy rational thought, so you can wrench your poor, obsessed spirit away from work and orient it toward stuff that matters.

Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

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