Sentence examples for up the pipe from inspiring English sources

Will ice plug up the pipe?

I would have first read Holmes as a child, long before I watched Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing or Jeremy Brett pick up the pipe and don the deerstalker.

Have a cup of tea, stoke up the pipe and pretend it's the fifties again... GSR 2.54pm: Did you like Premier League previews No1-15?

As the assailants fled, he picked up the pipe, which had been dropped, but the police refused to take it and never followed through with a promise to call him about the attack, he said.

For example, if an installer installed a temperature sensor near a steam outlet, it would read that it was too warm, and so it wouldn't heat up the pipe.

The main way of tracking what is happening to the well – its "integrity", as it is known in the business – is to gauge the pressure of the oil that is flowing up the pipe.

I might have messed up the pipes in my house one time by flushing nonflushable wipes.

Barney is the easiest, although Marge also glides right up the pipes.

And that's right, I'd blow up the pipes; I'd blow up the refineries; I'd blow up every single inch.

Banks have resisted taking losses on their remaining toxic assets, legacies of the crisis – those assets, blocking up the pipes, also constrain the banks' ability to lend.

Wipes marketed as flushable will probably be able to make their way down your toilet, but will eventually clog up the pipes further along their journey.