How to Use reservoir in a Sentence

reservoir

noun

• The pen has a large ink reservoir.
• She found the reservoirs of energy she needed to finish the job.
• Colleges and universities provide reservoirs of talent for job recruiters.
• The process for refilling the reservoir will take place over the next few months, the city said.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Gill said the campground is the only one of the six at the reservoir that is open year-round.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The reservoir stores about 30% of the drinking water for the Seattle metro area.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• Lake Mead, the largest reservoir of the United States, is downstream.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• With the loss of the dam and reservoir, harvests are likely to shrink further.
  — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• Peak bloom is defined as the point when 70 percent of the blossoms along the Tidal Basin — the reservoir on the Mall — have flowered.
  — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
• There appears to be no end to the reservoir of Presley content.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• Most bodies have some reservoirs to burn and thus time to find food to start eating again.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
• The water held by it forms Shasta Lake, a reservoir north of Redding.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
• The reservoir holds about half the amount of the pitcher base, so after two quick fills under the tap, the pitcher was ready to pour out or chill in the fridge.
  — Julie Laing, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• Most were in freshwater sources, such as lakes and reservoirs.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 18 July 2023
• All of that snow melted in the spring and summer, filling rushing rivers and reservoirs.
  — Adam Beam, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
• Pieces of the fragile specimen were first found in the 1980s by boaters on the shore of New Mexico's largest reservoir.
  — CBS News, 11 Jan. 2024
• Those storms, and the melting snow, also filled reservoirs around the state, many of which remain at high levels now.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
• The dam’s destruction killed dozens, partly drained the reservoir next to the power plant and flooded the Dnieper River basin.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 July 2023
• And this is a reservoir which has built up over centuries, even over millennia.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Even though the bottle warmer comes with a measuring cup to fill the reservoir, that cup has a rounded bottom.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 18 Sep. 2023
• The plant pots come with a reservoir in the bottom that can hold the extra water, which is then absorbed by the plants through a cotton rope by the plant’s roots.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• For this planter, simply use the clip-on watering attachment to fill the reservoir from the bottom.
  — Janae McKenzie, House Beautiful, 5 Sep. 2023
• The plant uses a cooling pond fed from a reservoir to cool its six reactors.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• The underside of the house is, in fact, a giant reservoir with a filtration system.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
• In Libya, as much as 16 inches of rain across desert landscapes overwhelmed reservoirs and dams.
  — Theodora Yu, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
• However, today the two largest reservoirs in the country are Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• Crews will start at Iron Gate and work their way upriver to draw down the remaining reservoirs and then remove the three dams.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
• That includes puddles, bird baths, and any small reservoirs—mosquitos love to lay their eggs in the water.
  — Kate McGregor, House Beautiful, 29 June 2023
• Santa Fe, just a half-mile south of downtown, is a reservoir trapped behind a red sandstone dam that was built by the railroad.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
• Can the dam and reservoir be restored if fighting continues there?
  — Lori Hinnant, Sam McNeil, Illia Novikov, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024