Basins
['besn]
Examples
- All fresh water basins, taken together, make a small area compared with that of the sea or of the land. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- These fishes are reared by the Chinese in small ponds, in basins or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- From these basins the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime, which effectually prevents their overflowing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I looked at the board tables, the instruments shining in the light, the basins and the stoppered bottles. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Ringwood) passes reeling by, holding six basins. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The waters of the Mediterranean and of our own Great Salt Lake are led into shallow basins, where, after evaporation by the heat of the sun, they leave a residue of salt. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- All these limestone upper basins must be full of caves, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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