Sentence examples for sewer as from inspiring English sources

The worst image was of a mother, drinking while her child spills off her shoulder, falling toward the sewer, as noted by BBC.

He threw the casing into a sewer as they ran away.

"We couldn't even access the sewer as it was blocked by a four-foot wall of solid fat".

During heavy showers, a trickling drain will quickly become a torrent, and a main sewer - or "trunk sewer" as they're called - can fill to the roof.

Metaphorical readings might be ventured: the artist-hero exploring the depths of his unconscious, the sewer as the home of abject soulfulness.

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.

Overflowing cesspools and sewers — as well as flotillas of drowned rats in the Seine — then raised the specter of a typhoid epidemic.

Still, Ms. Bowe said, there could be some larger benefit to the landscaped roof in that it would help absorb storm water and alleviate flooding in the sewers, as well as give the new residents their own open space, taking pressure off the existing parks and playgrounds.

Differences were found in the quality of effluents between the old and new parts of the town and were attributed mainly to the different design and construction of the sewers, as well as to the occasional discharge of septage into the sewerage network in parts of the town.

The city's major water supply lines, sewer lines as well as liquid fuel pipelines run right through the fault zone.

"New Jersey must do better," he said, after promising to impose stricter limits on industrial and sewer discharges, as well as on pollution from septic systems, roads and agricultural and residential runoff.