The word "manholes" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to the round openings or covers on a street or sidewalk that provide access to underground pipes or utility lines. Here is an example of how the word "manholes" can be used in a sentence: "The city council has allocated funds to repair and upgrade all of the manholes in the downtown area."
Some poor people still spend the winter nights beneath the streets (open manholes are a pedestrian hazard), huddling near the pipes for warmth.
I dug pits for poles and descended into manholes, but was far from ending my career as a CEO.L.M. WHYTEFearrington, North Carolina.
The public mood was better caught by a cartoon in a liberal daily, Al Wafd, which showed Cairenes searching high and low, behind doors, under cars, down manholes.
Yet here too Ms George finds heroes: the "flushers" who don crotch-high waders and do battle with everything that is dropped down drains or stuffed down manholes, from cotton-buds (the perfect size to block filters) to congealed fat from restaurants; from mobile phones to the occasional dead Mafioso.
As Ms Tett recounts, everything was done to prevent the problems coming to light, including dropping boxes of papers down manholes in the basement when inspectors called not that the regulators wanted to find too much.By the time of the collapse of LTCB, the scale of Japan's banking crisis had finally sunk in.
Maybe 5% of Ulan Bator's population, mainly children, appear to live underground, down manholes or by the warm outlets of power-stations, to escape the bitter winters.
I love his pieces now – I collect all I can find, particularly his early chairs made from Victorian railings and manholes.
Miyamoto told Sheff not only about the cave but about dares among his friends to make forays into neighbors' basements and yards, or about a neighbor's bulldog that would charge him each time he passed by, jerking on its chain, or about getting stuck high in a tree or wondering what was at the bottom of manholes.
Unaccounted-for steam had been rising from several of the corporation's manholes, & investigators concluded that water was leaking from city mains & flowing underground until it came in contact with some hot steampipes which turned it to steam.
Writer went out with two crew members who were testing temperatures in Harrison Alley manholes.
By night, he steals copper wire and sells it for scrap; he even steals manholes — a base-level crime, in every sense.
