sewer

Example Sentences

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He said acquiring the additional sewer capacity would cost as much as $12 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

She’d reported fires, trash, homeless camps and, last year, people living in the sewer, she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Scottish Water announced in January that water and sewer rates would go up 8.67% from April.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

In New York, excavators scooped piles of snow into steaming orange trailers known as "hot tubs," which send the meltwater down into the city's sewer system.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Deeper and deeper, darker and darker, they sloshed through the cavernous sewer.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman