Sentence examples for drainages from inspiring English sources
The word 'drainages' is correct and usable in written English
It is the plural form of the word 'drainage', which refers to the act or process of draining or the system of drains in a particular area. Example: The city's outdated drainage system could not handle the heavy rains, leading to flooding in many areas. The government has allocated funds to upgrade the drainages and prevent future incidents.
In the drainages of the major rivers of the northwest, such as the Columbia and the Fraser, the annual abundance of salmon was the basis of a cultural adjustment as early as 7000 bc.
The city bestrides the Witwatersrand, or Rand, a string of low, rocky ridges that constitutes the watershed between the drainages into the Indian and Atlantic oceans.
For example, cold air drainages at the crest of valleys can cause a local depression of timberline.
They included factors like the contours of the seafloor, the geology of the coastline, the location of drainages and buildings, and the action of waves and tides.
He also put civilians to work cleaning up the city's streets and drainages, and he quarantined ships to fight yellow fever, which had killed 11,000 people in the city just a decade earlier.
In a phone interview this month, Jason Brush, wetlands office supervisor for EPA Region 9 said: "They're planning direct fill of 40 acres and some 150-odd individual stream drainages on site".
"Although the development of new drainage infrastructure in the city is underway," the report noted, "the project is behind schedule and over-budget, demonstrating that the implementation of adaptive measures may still be a challenge for the local government".
Murillo Karam recognised the collaboration of the US government in tracking Guzmán to a network of safe houses with reinforced metal doors and escape tunnels that made use of the city drainage system and allowed the criminal to escape from an initial operation.
In other parts of the border, cartels have adapted underground drainage tunnels.
When it rains, the streets around them overflow because the drainage system cannot cope.Mr Varela says he will keep spending $3 billion a year on public investment, which he hopes will generate 7% growth.
The federal government is pushing the provinces to agree to a national ban on the bulk removal of water from all drainage basins.
