Sample Sentences for
culvert
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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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    It read: Go at once to the culvert opening on the south shore.†  (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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    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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    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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    As I was building it, I installed a forty-eight-inch culvert through it at the lowest spot, and then put a weir, or gate, across it to control the water depth.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Had the girls ridden here more recently, they would have known that the slope they were climbing had, since late summer, run with water from a leaking culvert.†  (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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