swimming pool

noun

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as in pool

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Recent Examples of swimming pool The estate also hosts a covered porch with a massive red brick fireplace and a 20-foot-by-50-foot heated Gunite swimming pool surrounded by a sprawling lawn. — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 31 July 2026 Perhaps most notable this year is the Golden Plunge indoor swimming pool, which was originally constructed around 1926 and still resides under the venue’s floor, empty of water of course. — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 31 July 2026 The district that encompasses the park, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, had closed playgrounds and sports facilities, including a swimming pool. — Ben Crair, New Yorker, 31 July 2026 Also on the 18th floor, a 3,400-square-foot, two-bedroom residence offers north-facing skyline views from both its interior spaces and its spacious outdoor lounge and heated swimming pool. — Dan Howarth, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for swimming pool
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swimming pool
  1. pool
  2. well
  3. puddle
  4. lake
  5. water hole
  6. pond
  7. billabong
Noun
  • One video, first shared with The Miami Hurricane by a person who wants to remain anonymous, appears to show a man being pushed into a pool while his pants are on fire.
    — Abby Dodge, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026
  • One solution that came from readers of this column was to put up a flag whenever the pool was open and take it down whenever guests weren’t welcome.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of pool
Noun
  • This tracks with other nearby excavations—including a well, a burial ground, and a settlement—that are from the pre-Nuragic period.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Construction teams last week began drilling the first of 65 on-site wells that will reach depths of 820 feet, where the temperature is roughly 55 degrees year-round.
    — Brian J. Rogal, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of well
Noun
  • About halfway up, the orange-and-black butterflies had begun appearing in groups, alighting on flowers or gathering to sip water from puddles.
    — Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
  • Some of it had escaped through a gash in her shin, forming a small gray-pink puddle by her ankle that gave off an astringent smell.
    — John Semley, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
Definition of puddle
Noun
  • The county just completed major renovations, including the dredging of the lake to improve water quality and the construction of a lakeside pavilion that can be rented out for events.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Members of the Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office Boat Patrol, who were already on the lake conducting routine patrols, responded immediately and took over lifesaving efforts from bystanders until firefighters and paramedics arrived.
    — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of lake
Noun
  • There were about 50 of them and they were strung out over a wide, grassy plain near a water hole.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026
  • What looks like a matter of simple intellectual convenience is more a case of poisoning the water hole.
    — Richard Lansdown, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2026
Definition of water hole
Noun
  • The first is at Orvis Hot Springs, a clothing-optional resort in Ridgway with natural hot spring soaking pools, plus a dry sauna and a cold plunge pond off to the side, framed by the San Juan Mountains.
    — Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Water overflowed from a large retention pond and swept Kearns away.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of pond
Noun
  • Sonia Namarnyilk layered three stencils to print complex patterns of mermaid-like water spirits, their fluid, bright orange undulations interspersed with playful turtles and rippling billabong plants.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
  • The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
Definition of billabong

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