aqueductin a sentence
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The Aqua Virgo is an ancient Roman aqueduct that still brings water to the Trevi Fountain in Rome, more than 2,000 years after it was first built.aqueduct = structure that carries water
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The Owens Valley aqueduct carries water from the Sierras to Los Angeles.
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On a dig in Pompeii, they found aqueduct technology better than what we're using today.† (source)
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The tunnel inclined steeply as it left the Castle St. Angelo, proceeding upward into the underside of a stone bastion that looked like a Roman aqueduct.† (source)
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Together they raced over the hills, past Roman aqueducts, highways, and vineyards.† (source)
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Aqueducts.† (source)
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We drove north on Highway 280 beside the aqueduct, the same water reserve the family used to drive by on our way to Memorial Park years ago.† (source)
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The only towns which have had uninterrupted power were those served by hydroelectric plants, provided the plants were undamaged and the aqueducts intact.† (source)
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The aqueduct collapsed.† (source)
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Imagine the leagues of level land and the aqueducts and the broken Roman pavement and the tombstones in the Campagna, and beyond the Campagna, the sea, then again more land, then the sea.† (source)
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He walked out of the station and up the street through the high portales of the old stone aqueduct and down into the town.† (source)
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When they turned off the Corniche d'Or and down to Gausse's Hotel through the darkening banks of trees, set one behind another in many greens, the moon already hovered over the ruins of the aqueducts......Somewhere in the hills behind the hotel there was a dance, and Rosemary listened to the music through the ghostly moonshine of her mosquito net, realizing that there was gaiety too somewhere about, and she thought of the nice people on the beach.† (source)
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Think of it as a leaky aqueduct leading to a water wheel.† (source)
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It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.† (source)
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A toddler gnome poked his head out of an aqueduct only a few feet from the hut.† (source)
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[695] See the investment of capital in aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics; fortifications, by gunpowder; roads and canals, by railways; sails, by steam; steam, by electricity† (source)
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