Sentence examples for the sump from inspiring English sources

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the sump

noun

A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.

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The sump was too long.

This was the sump room.

Yes, the sump was longer than expected, the conditions more challenging.

They'd reached the end of the sump and the river was flowing nearby.

Last spring, groundwater flooded the basement relentlessly; the sump pump was inoperable.

The sump beyond it, once the dark side of the moon, now seemed comfortingly familiar.

"They built an entirely new engine, from the carburetors to the sump".

"When he coughed you heard the sump at the bottom of a mine-shaft echoing".

She turned the sump pump off this morning, submitting to the river.

"We had oil coming up into the basement through the sump pump pit".

Another time, just as a couple was coming over, the sump pump stopped working after a rainstorm.

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