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a pipe or other enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath a road, railroad, or sidewalk

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

In the gray starlight she could see the embankment and the black round hole of the culvert where she always left Tom's food.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath

culvert = a pipe that carries runoff water beneath something

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

There was no gap between the punt and the dark mouth of the culvert.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

Broadside on, the punt struck gently against two of the piers and stopped, pinned squarely across the mouth of one of the central culverts.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

culverts = a pipe or other enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath a road, railroad, or sidewalk

Well out from either bank stood four low arches—scarcely more than culverts, each filled by the stream to within a foot of the apex.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

culverts = a pipe or other enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath a road, railroad, or sidewalk

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

Had they come over the common, among the shining wires, through the thunderstorm, the culverts on the great river, to die at the claws of General Woundwort?
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

culverts = a pipe or other enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath a road, railroad, or sidewalk

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

The cart track crossed by a brick culvert and climbed the opposite slope to a five-barred gate in the thorn hedge.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down

culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something

The driver and the two men who had been with him were running toward a culvert.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
He surfaced near where we stood on the edge of the culvert.
Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
He eased his feet in, holding the fluted steel edge of the culvert with both hands.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
Drains and culverts — I put two and two together and hoped for the best.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
There were many creeks in this mountainous region, and it was necessary to cross Muddy Creek, Green Creek, and others, upon culverts.
Jules Verne -- Around the World in 80 Days
Sucking out of an iron culvert into a pool.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
Unable to bear their gazes, Roran turned his back on them and gestured at the culvert that ran beneath the road.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Meanwhile he had cowered in a ditch with his head in a culvert and caught the shrapnel in his side.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
As I drew nearer I perceived he was dressed in clothes as dusty and filthy as my own; he looked, indeed, as though he had been dragged through a culvert.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

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