Sewer

//ˈs(j)uːə//

"Sewer" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Can you see an owl eating a delicious sewer rat over there? That's me.

The sewer pipe exploded.

You're a human sewer.

The sewer is clogged.

Algiers needs a better sewer system.

This place smells like a sewer.

In Algiers, the El Harrach River became an open sewer.

The El Harrach River functions like an open sewer.

If one indeed has courage, one could flourish like a lotus bloom, even from a sewer.

The route is blocked due to a leak in a sewer pipe.

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There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.

One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.

His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods.

the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

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