Sentence examples for sewer from inspiring English sources

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sewer

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A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

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The storm sewer drains into a lake and rescue crews were using sonar and boats to search.

The only slightly depressing side to the song was knowing that being able to gaze upon Waterloo sunset from my window was an unlikely and costly dream, and that I'd have to settle for a Brixton ditch or a Kennington sewer if I wanted a riverside view.

Related: Al Gore: oil companies 'use our atmosphere as an open sewer' An attorney-adviser for the SEC said that the commission's decision stemmed from its conclusion that Exxon has already partially implemented the proposal by increasing dividends.

It's as if he's channeling one of those early Church Fathers who went overboard trying to justify celibacy: Tertullian, maybe, who said a woman was "a temple built over a sewer".

He said he was particularly pleased to be receiving a knighthood as he is the great-great-grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the civil engineer who was knighted in the 19th century for his work designing and overseeing the building of an enclosed sewer network for London.

Removing the price means the atmosphere can again be used with impunity as an open sewer for the disposal of carbon dioxide and methane.

Some redundant remains were dumped in a sewer that ran directly under the building.

The bare earth streets are carved with gullies: equal parts open sewer and rubbish dump.

The business of such meetings should be sewer easements and highway maintenance, not Jesus.

Nearly two-fifths of the United States' 25,000 sewer systems illegally discharged raw sewage or other nasty stuff into rivers or lakes in 2007-09, and over 40% of the country's waters are considered dangerously polluted.

Known as the "condominial" system (named after a Brazilian soap opera about the good life), it is based on a single sewage pipe running from house to house, rather than separate pipes for each house connected to a mains sewer, as in the more expensive conventional system.

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