Sentence examples for hidden drainage from inspiring English sources

We found that the straw ditches served as hidden drainage channels and could significantly reduce soil moisture content and water potential after rainfall in the wheat fields.

The sequence of the contamination we postulated was the following: continuous leakage of chemicals from the landfills, and from runoff waters of the soil surrounding the plant, contaminated the nearby river through a hidden drainage ditch.

Fleeing to a construction site, Gaddafi and his inner consort hid inside drainage pipes while his bodyguards battled the rebels; in the conflict, Gaddafi suffered head injuries from a grenade blast while defence minister Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr was killed.

Gaddafi and a handful of his men appear to have escaped death, and hidden in two drainage pipes choked with rubbish.

He was found in the town of Sirte, hiding in a drainage pipe.

A small group of fighters from Misurata, the vanguard of the force attacking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's former hometown and final hide-out, Surt, said they had stumbled upon him hiding in a drainage pipe.

Officials had said the attack was part of a hunt for wanted men, including former government officials and the captors of Omran Shaaban, a well-known former rebel fighter who was one of the first to find Colonel Qaddafi a year ago, hiding in a drainage pipe, before the former leader was killed.

This was moments after he was pulled from a large drainage pipe where he had hidden after a NATO air assault destroyed part of his convoy.

Slits at each side of the concrete floor provide drainage for inevitable rains, as do drains hidden beneath the surrounding decomposed-granite field.

They received sustenance from their protectors through a small drinking straw hidden within the building's structure, but with no commode or drainage they were eventually forced by "customs of nature which must of necessity be done" to emerge from hiding, and were immediately captured.

Gaddafi himself and a handful of his men escaped death and appeared to have run through a stand of trees towards the main road and hid in the two drainage pipes.