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Recent Examples of pondThe grounds feel almost straight out of a fairytale, with lush greenery framing alfresco dining areas and a stone koi pond.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2026 On the 2-acre lot are a patio with a pizza oven, a guesthouse, a flex building, a koi pond, and lemon, papaya, and star fruit trees.—The Week Us, TheWeek, 9 Mar. 2026 Gravetye’s grounds, which include terraces, meadows, woods, and a pond, are gorgeous, as are its interiors.—Amy Waldman, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2026 The backyard flock in New London County consisted of chickens, ducks and peacocks that were family pets, not commercial poultry, and had close contact with wild birds in a nearby pond, officials said.—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pond
The development came a week after the agency finished its cleanup and containment efforts at the Englebright Lake and a day after the lake was reopened for the public.
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Chaewon Chung
March 13,
Sacbee.com,
14 Mar. 2026
Common to lakes, rivers, and blue holes in Texas Hill Country and Central Texas, clearer, bluer waters can most often be attributed to the abundance of natural deposits and quarries of limestone that are native to the area.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2026
In fact, there's not a drop of water to be seen at Antelope Point Marina, which once sat near the shore of Lake Powell, the nation's second-largest reservoir.
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Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
15 Mar. 2026
Colorado’s sixth-largest city is presently at 83% of storage capacity across the 19 reservoirs that hold its water.
Here, breathtaking landscapes stretch as far as the eye can see, freckled with twinkling lagoons and clusters of thick forests, framed by gentle slopes and hills beyond.
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Olivia Morelli,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Mar. 2026
The Rooms Our Bunk Suite featured a bedroom with a king-size bed and a balcony overlooking the lagoon.
Located on the shores of Loch Linnhe, one of 31,000 freshwater lochs in Scotland, Fort William sits in the shadow of Ben Nevis, at 4,490 feet the highest peak in Britain.
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Patti Nickell,
Boston Herald,
15 Feb. 2026
Curling is a game of tradition, first played centuries ago on Scottish lochs, where players slide heavy granite rocks down a sheet of ice toward a target.