What is "artificial lake"

Usage examples of "artificial lake".

Then he led me to an artificial lake, which had been so artfully planted around with reeds and lotuses that one could easily mistake the whole invention for an unusually successful work of nature.

The artificial lake of Moeris was created as a reservoir for the waters of the Nile: it was 'four hundred and fifty miles in circumference' and three hundred and fifty feet deep, with subterranean channels, flood-gates, locks, and dams, by which the wilderness was redeemed from sterility.

The sun was just at the zenith when they emerged on a flat bare outcrop of rock overlooking the artificial lake.

Its umbrella-shaded tables were ranged along the shore of a pleasant artificial lake.

Wright was touring an artificial lake on the Taliesin property when the dam he was standing on gave way and he was swept into a rain-swollen creek.

Its dock was the artificial lake northeast of the colony, but it could land on any body of water.

An earth dam had been built to make an artificial lake for the cutinates to draw from.

It lay beneath an artificial lake fifty kilometers around, under the same dark, teeming waters that covered the surface of the Blackwiners' homeworld.

On this artificial lake, a fleet of armed vessels filled with soldiers, and with engines which discharged stones of five hundred pounds weight, advanced in order of battle, and engaged, almost upon a level, the troops which defended the ramparts.

The man, for instance, who sat with him in his living room, was Charles Hijkman, and he, actually, was sitting in his own living room on an island in an artificial lake stocked with fifty varieties of fish, which happened to be twenty-five hundred miles distant, in space.

The fountain in the middle of the artificial lake in front of the huge hotel complex looked cold and stiff, like dead, blowing grass.

Because there was a water-freshening plant down there and all the fresh water was poured back overboard, while the brine, saturated with salts from the ocean, unable to dissolve a single grain of anything, was being used to fill the small artificial lake.

To Kalidasa's surprise, his father ordered the cart to carry him to the great artificial lake that irrigated the central kingdom, the completion of which had occupied most of his reign.