Sentence examples for * drainpipe in from inspiring English sources

Ramos is a frightening figure, who once tried to lure children into a drainpipe in Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx.

Here's the author William T Vollman on a visit in 2013: "Right by the pachinko parlour [the] scintillation counter read 4.2 microsieverts per hour — about 10 times the level of that mildly dangerous drainpipe in Hisanohama.

He downplayed his involvement in Quinlan's investments, claiming he owned only "a drainpipe in Budapest" – a reference to the Four Seasons Gresham Palace, a five-star hotel in Hungary.

Carmine F. Vasile, an inventor who lives on Long Island, vividly recalls April 28 , 1980 when he accidentally touched a drainpipe in his basement in Medford, N.Y., while his wife was upstairs taking a shower.

PARIS — More than two years after men dressed in wigs and scarves struck the Harry Winston jewelry store in Paris's golden triangle of upscale shops, the police this week discovered a cache of sparkling diamonds from the theft in a far less glamorous place: a drainpipe in the northern suburbs of the city.

On Monday, in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, two people, including a firefighter, were sucked into a drainpipe in the town of Schwäbisch Gmünd; a 62-year-old man was found dead in a flooded basement garage in Weissbach; and a 13-year-old girl, seeking shelter under a railway bridge, was struck by a train and killed in Schorndorf.

The only trousers on the runway were drainpipes in black chiffon.

But now that Capaldi is in a well-publicised dark-blue Crombie overcoat, drainpipe trousers in matching colour, plain white shirt and stamp-on-your-head black DMs, it may not be too soon to say that the closure of Sherry's was premature.

That's where the drainpipe comes in.

He is wearing clumpy black Nikes, electric green and black socks and drainpipe jeans in a Prince of Wales plaid.

The former home of country probably does see more drainpipe jeans in its launderettes than rhinestone chaps nowadays.