sump

Friends, my family included, have been scrounging for fans, dehumidifiers, and sump pumps to lend to friends affected by the flood.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2024

Last week, Ford said it had offered a 9% wage increase through 2027 and 6% lump sump payments, much less than the 46% wage hike being sought by the union.

From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2023

Starting in 1974, Chevron subsidiary Union Oil Company of California had operated a sump pit for oil and gas production, a process that left the carcinogenic chemical benzene on the property, court papers said.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

“We have sump pumps running day and night to keep the water out of our elevator shaft and we have persistent groundwater leaks coming up through the floor of our parking garage,” said Juricek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2022

It was cold and dead, and a foul sump of oily many-coloured ooze lay at its bottom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Many of these older systems, especially the sumps, weren't designed to handle the corrosive mix of gasoline and ethanol sold in the United States.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2023

In very short order, much of this clean and lovely place, and a shoreline whose wetlands had cleaned and revived the natural system for millennia, were turned into sodden chemical sumps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Though Kirk Cousins recovered his own fumble, this picture pretty much sumps up the Redskins season:

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2015

In other cases, environmental testing has disclosed the presence of oil spreading in groundwater from old spills and sumps, rendering property close to worthless.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 6, 2015

The sumps were really short tunnels underneath the main ones and extending approximately between the center lines of the latter.

From Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159 by James H. Brace