Sample Sentences forculvert (editor-reviewed)
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Water flowed through the culvert beneath the country road after the storm.culvert = a drain under a road
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The road crew repaired the rusted culvert before winter.culvert = a roadside drain
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I spent the night in a culvert beneath the road.culvert = a pipe or other enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath a road
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Police found her hiding in a culvert.culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something -- such as a large pipe beneath a road
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The rain echoed dismally up the culvert. (source)culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
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In the gray starlight she could see the embankment and the black round hole of the culvert where she always left Tom's food. (source)culvert = a pipe that carries runoff water beneath something
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They passed a culvert over a creek where the moon's reflection wobbled between the cattails.† (source)
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They slosh through the culverts in their rubber boots and swing from trees and from the lower beams of the bridge.† (source)
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There was an overturned shopping cart just outside the start of the culvert, trapped against a moss-covered boulder.† (source)
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There were many creeks in this mountainous region, and it was necessary to cross Muddy Creek, Green Creek, and others, upon culverts.† (source)
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For months, Mr. Hubbard had been planning to replace it with a large concrete culvert, but his bad health had sidetracked him.† (source)
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The water was now high in the streams, squirting through the weirs, and tinkling under culverts; the smallest gullies were all full; there was no taking short cuts anywhere, and foot-passengers were compelled to follow the permanent ways.† (source)
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And there was another time, when Owen and I had been catching alewives in the tidewater culvert that ran into the Squamscott under the Swasey Parkway and I slipped and broke my wrist; she didn't take the Boston & Maine that week.† (source)
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They mined it at night, they stored it in hidden culverts, they were paid in cash, with no questions asked or answered.† (source)
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She went to the culvert at the entrance to the driveway and snipped the sturdier grass growing at its two mouths.† (source)
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In the pass that the Seperchia cut between the Hephestial Mountains and the coastal range, the streams were forced into narrow ditches and crossed the roadway there in stone-sided culverts.† (source)
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