| Public libraries quickly became centralized depositories for important public texts and artifacts. |
| The Internet has created vast depositories of information all over the world which contain every imaginable form of data. |
| They serve as depositories for a large amount of organic matter and are full of decomposition, which feeds a broad food chain of organisms from bacteria to mammals. |
| As he went along, upon a dreary night, the dim streets by which he went, seemed all depositories of oppressive secrets. |
| Constantinople was known in the West to contain great depositories of ancient Greek literature and a few scholars familiar with it. |
| Its warehouses, far from only storing food, he said, were also used as depositories for weapons. |
