Sentence examples for blocked drain from inspiring English sources

Nilsen was caught after plumbers found a blocked drain choked with human flesh.

Today it is inky black, covered in a slick of lime green algae, and it smells like a blocked drain.

Officials in St. Vincent reported a 16-year-old boy was crushed by a boulder as he tried to clear a blocked drain.

From his two months in the north, one image stayed with him above all others; a pale young woman "with the usual draggled, exhausted look … I thought how dreadful a destiny it was to be kneeling in the gutter in a back alley in Wigan, in the bitter cold, prodding a stick up a blocked drain.

It is the sheer lack of pride: the rubbish strewn outside the back entrance, the blocked drain that gushed soapy water across the concourse behind the pavilion, the squalor of fag ends and assorted rubbish, the toilets that did not flush last year and predictably did not flush this.

People say it's haunted now.' She says it matter-of-factly, as though the problem could equally well have been a leaky roof or a blocked drain.

On Thursday, they lifted sewer covers and shoveled out debris that blocked drains.

Fat, oil and grease cause more than three-quarters of the tens of thousands of blocked drains the company has to deal with every year.

Water companies are warning of a buildup of blocked drains after households have prepared roast potatoes, buttered greens, basted birds and pigs in blankets for traditional Christmas dinners.

I used to work with my dad (a self-employed builder), who had a penchant for getting me to rod blocked drains first thing after breakfast.

Animal fats and vegetable oil, lard, grease, butter and margarine, food scraps and dairy products all contribute to blocked drains, "fatbergs" and sewer blockages.