How do you use the word "pool" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pool": The school drains the pool once a month. School being over, we went swimming in the pool.

Pool Meaning

/puːl/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

nounAny small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

Sentence Examples

The school drains the pool once a month.

School being over, we went swimming in the pool.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pond

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

During the hot summer, the children spent hours swimming in the cool ____ in the backyard.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The hotel guests relaxed by the outdoor ____ in the warm afternoon sunshine.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English pool, pole, pol, from Old English pōl (“pool”), from Proto-West Germanic pōl, from Proto-Germanic *pōlaz (“pool, pond”), from Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”). Cognate with Scots puil (“pool”), Saterland Frisian Pol (“pool”), West Frisian poel (“pool”), Dutch poel (“pool”), German Low German Pohl, Pool, Pul (“pool”), German Pfuhl (“quagmire, mudhole”), Danish pøl (“puddle”), Swedish pöl (“puddle, pool”), Icelandic pollur (“puddle”), Lithuanian bala (“puddle”), Latvian bala (“a muddly, treeless depression”), Russian боло́то (bolóto, “swamp, bog, marsh”). For the meaning development to a supply of resources compare typologically Russian пруд пруди́ (prud prudí) (< пруд (prud)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"[…] at laſt I left them I’ th’ filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, There dancing vp to th’ chins, that the fowle Lake Ore-ſtunck their feet." — 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15, column 2:

"A Single Life doth well with Church-men : For Charitie will hardly water the Ground, where it muſt firſt fill a Poole." — 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Marriage And Single Life. VIII.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 37:

"I loved the brimming wave that swam Thro’ quiet meadows round the mill, The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still, The meal-sacks on the whiten’d floor, The dark round of the dripping wheel, The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal." — 1833, Alfred Tennyson, “The Miller's Daughter”, in Poems, 5th edition, Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 86:

"He walked slowly, passing through one pool of light after another, his shadow running tall across the fronts of the barber shop, the Western Auto, the video-rental shop." — 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

"The 4-BEP and 4-CEP stock is maintained in a common pool for both Chatham and South Eastern fast main-line services." — 1962 June, Rupert Shervington, “The planning and execution of the Kent Coast electrification”, in Modern Railways, page 390:

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