septic

Example Sentences

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At one point, the cave faced a potential threat when someone attempted to develop the land and convert the cave into a septic tank.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The Polish patients' rights ombudsman also found that Izabela's rights had been violated, and recommended new protocols for septic shock and for situations posing threats to a woman's health.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

Trees have less dramatic ways to screw up your day: Their roots can infiltrate cracks in septic or sewage pipes, blocking the system and wreaking expensive, smelly havoc.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Tougher controls over the spreading of sewage and septic tank sludge to land as fertiliser in farming are also proposed, as are limits on using digestate from anaerobic digestion plants.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

But what had amused me then turned septic on the air now.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald