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.
  • So the reservoir deficits and the long-term drought, they don’t get solved with one storm.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The app will tell you when the reservoir is ready for a refill.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir of the State Water Project, is at 120%.
    — Calmatters, Mercury News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • To balance the storage in the reservoirs and the timing of runoff, SRP swaps rivers twice a year.
    — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 25 Nov. 2024
  • And their task is like draining a reservoir with a spoon.
    — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 27 July 2022
  • That’s not the case with smaller reservoirs in the San Joaquin Valley.
    — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2023
  • That's what's going to build that reservoir of thoughts.
    — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Men's Health, 9 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • This unit heats a reservoir of warm water to clean your body.
    — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 July 2022
  • The newer and larger one is the O.B. Curtis plant near the reservoir.
    — Emily Wagster Pettus, ajc, 2 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, the U.S.-led coalition controlled the north shore of the reservoir and the Islamic State controlled the south.
    — New York Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Weedman echoed some of the benefits to fish and the reservoir.
    — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The fish were stocked throughout the reservoir May 24 and 25, MassWildlife said in an e-mail.
    — Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • What’s more, Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, was about 27% full.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
  • Due to severe drought, the reservoir is at its lowest since 1937 when the lake was first filled.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The reservoir and frother are dishwasher-safe, which is a nice touch.
    — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The ember cast, blown due south by high winds, will devastate the area on the west side of the Eaton Canyon reservoir.
    — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Hoover Dam stores water from Lake Mead, and is the largest reservoir in the country by volume when full.
    — Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • They are watered by 50 reservoirs on which the names of the victims are engraved.
    — Amy Bradford, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Fill the reservoir with equal parts white vinegar and water.
    — Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the river’s two largest reservoirs, are both 33% full.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2025
  • That’s when the last displacement due to a canal reservoir project, Alajuela Lake, took place in Panama.
    — Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2025

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