Sentence examples for like a manhole from inspiring English sources

He points to what looks like a manhole cover outside the Hope.

The agency's seal – which is two feet in diameter, about 100 pounds and looks like a manhole cover – was found in the ground zero rubble.

A dashboard switch maxes out the computer-controlled shocks for high-speed duty, keeping the Aston's body pinned to the ground like a manhole cover.

On large aluminum panels, this Wales-based photographer depicts the most uninviting of industrial wasteland scenes, like a manhole next to a railroad track at the foot of a vast, dirty concrete wall.

Another idea is to make the entrance look like a manhole cover.

I want it to reach a frenzied peak, like you're a manhole on a steam pipe, blowing straight out of the air.

There are those, like artists, who prize a manhole cover for its form.

There were the typical novice questions, like the one about why a manhole is called a manhole.

You have less legroom than in the bulkhead seat on the Delta shuttle, and from this distance, the smoke plumes that shoot up from the rink ends when the Rangers score look like steam puffs escaping from a manhole.

Picture this: At some New York City intersection, without warning, a 20-foot geyser of flame erupts from a manhole as a cannon-like blast launches the manhole's 300-pound, cast-iron round cover 30 to 50 feet into the air -- with nowhere for it to go but back down.

In a third painting, colored lines radiate like air tubes or arteries from a manhole cover.