Sentence examples for a 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.

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.

Having memorized the combination to the institute's safe, Schreiber shinnied three floors down a drainpipe, climbed in the window, and cracked the safe..

Having memorized the combination to the institute's safe, Schreiber shinnied three floors down a drainpipe, climbed in the window, and cracked the safe...

On one occasion, he noticed a drainpipe lying in a field and had a colleague help him drag it back to the laboratory for use in his computer hardware.

BARTLETT, N.H., March 18 — As they do every March at the town meeting here, residents debated and voted Thursday on items most local: whether to outfit the town fire truck with a new hose, buy a police cruiser and put a new drainpipe in the town garage.

He had famously expressed horror at the image of Saddam Hussein in his hole at the end, and sworn that he'd never be in such a situation; one wonders what went through his mind when he was found in a drainpipe, and what he thought in those last minutes as he was apparently dragged along the street by rebels, dying, and then, dead.

Trevor Hicks, whose two daughters died at Hillsborough, said Bettison should "scurry up a drainpipe" and resign in the aftermath of the publication of the Hillsborough report on Wednesday.