water tower

noun

: a tower or standpipe serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required head

Examples of water tower in a Sentence

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The steel’s all melted A water tower at the United States Steel Corp. Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. Kristian Burt, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2025 Save on a stay at the Arlo Williamsburg, for example, which sits in the heart of one of the coolest neighborhoods in Brooklyn and features an incredible bar in a water tower with unmatched views of the city skyline. Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024 Morales projected the game onto a water tower from his home for members of the community. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024 Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower. Erin Prater, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for water tower 

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of water tower was in 1835

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“Water tower.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20tower. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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