How to Use aqueduct in a Sentence

aqueduct

noun

• Two billion dollars and a decade later, that new tunnel is ready to connect to the old, and that means shutting the aqueduct off for eight months.
  — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2024
• Residents seized the aqueduct’s control gates and diverted its flow into the Owens River channel.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
• The aqueduct ruins are about a mile and a half to the south.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 13 May 2018
• But in parts of the country, the flow in the aqueducts has dwindled.
  — Ian James, azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
• The divers found the vehicle 1,400 feet south of the Main Street bridge over the aqueduct.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 15 Sep. 2017
• That meant size and scale, to build pipes and aqueducts—out of reach to all but a few.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 22 Dec. 2019
• These days the aqueduct marks the entrance to a park, where the Château de Marly once stood.
  — National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• Bailey crashed the car and stopped near 23rd and Aqueduct streets.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2017
• The ancient underground aqueducts in the city have stood the test of time.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune Europe, 10 July 2024
• Jervis had designed it in the style of a Roman aqueduct.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2018
• And in 2018 a modern aqueduct was cut through the ancient canal.
  — National Geographic, 17 Jan. 2020
• Rome’s first aqueduct was built in 312 B.C., and many more would be built over the next five centuries.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2020
• About 1,600 years had passed since Rome built its last aqueduct.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
• The two governments use many of the same rivers and aqueducts to move supplies.
  — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• The aqueduct still stands, along with a pair of reservoirs behind it.
  — National Geographic, 20 Aug. 2020
• With the enemy fleet in the distance, the white batteries on the shore, the aqueducts, clouds of smoke, the wind in our faces.
  — Emilio Fraia, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• In Rome itself, a new aqueduct supplied the city with water from the north.
  — Kenneth Garrett, National Geographic, 24 June 2019
• Now, Fred’s dead and that’s all water under the aqueduct.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2021
• Land that is about to become very valuable, thanks to the completion of the aqueduct.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2021
• Because the water comes from the mountains, the aqueduct is built on a downhill slope.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2021
• The aqueduct’s 233-mile path also forms the narrative spine of Krist’s book.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• An outbreak of cholera in 1832 finally forced the city to approve an aqueduct from the Catskills.
  — Keith Williams, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
• Yes, that’s a Spanish aqueduct on top of the Manhattan Bridge.
  — Emily Eisen, Bon Appetit, 26 Mar. 2018
• The ghostly ruins of the aqueduct offer a window into a part of the state’s storied past.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 13 May 2018
• From picnicking in the shadow of ancient aqueducts to sipping cocktails at the hottest new rooftop bar, these are the best things to do in Rome.
  — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2024
• Pouring the mixture into molds allowed the Romans to build vaults, domes, and the arches of the empire's great aqueducts.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 12 Oct. 2017
• Atkins doesn’t propose to patch the aqueduct leaks, because paying for it is too contentious.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
• Pigneto, a district known as much for its ancient aqueducts as its seasoned ladies of the night, is now home to some of the city's young creative types.
  — Elle Decor Staff, ELLE Decor, 22 Aug. 2011
• The tram passes over the famed Arches of Lapa, an 18th-century aqueduct that is a symbol of Rio.
  — Jack Nicas, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• He too owned tracts in the Valley, and helped to engineer the aqueduct taking of the Owens Valley water to make those tracts even more valuable.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024