Sentence examples for french drain from inspiring English sources
noun
A shallow trench, perhaps lined with tile or containing a perforated pipe, backfilled with gravel and then covered over, used to collect and channel runoff water.
I have looked at a "french drain".
The French drain also had to be unclogged.
I would like to plant a weeping willow tree a few feet from the French drain.
My basement has a french drain and sump pump that work fine unless the electricity goes out.
A separate sewage line, utilizing the French Drain System, which runs parallel along the channel is proposed to protect the channels' health.
Often on my jobs, I'd install a hidden linear French drain in the bottom of the swale to capture underground water flowing through the soil.
A French drains were invented by farmers to drain waterlogged fields.
Others, she said, "are now pricing French drains and backup generators".
But french drains are not always a good way to control damp in buildings.
Otherwise, it should only be used as gravel for drainage, either in french drains or compacted for under-slab drainage.
The principal rivers emptying into Georgian Bay are the French, draining Lake Nipissing; the Muskoka, draining the Muskoka chain of lakes; the Severn, draining Lake Simcoe; the Magnetawan; and the Nottawasaga.
