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culvert

noun as in ditch for flow of water

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Example Sentences

She was driving to meet a reporter waiting in an Oklahoma City motel when she crashed into the concrete wing wall of a culvert.

A culvert packed with explosives presents a particularly dangerous and challenging problem.

A "culvert" is a bridge of small span giving passage to drainage.

"I don't know—I couldn't see—we ran into a culvert," replied Maud.

There was a shrieking streak of white and he disappeared under a culvert.

By these hornbeam trees a little streamlet flows out from the copse and under the road by a culvert.

Under the natural culvert, formed by the trunk fallen across, they cast their lines, using flies from their hook.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to culvert, such as: duct, gutter, pipe, canal, channel, and conduit.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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