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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
  • They passed a culvert over a creek where the moon's reflection wobbled between the cattails.†  (source)
    culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
  • He feels for the disused culvert he knows is there, lifts her up to it, offering his hands for a stirrup, then swings himself up beside her.†  (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)
    culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
  • 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)
    culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
  • Sucking out of an iron culvert into a pool.†  (source)
    culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
  • There were many creeks in this mountainous region, and it was necessary to cross Muddy Creek, Green Creek, and others, upon culverts.†  (source)
    culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
  • It read: Go at once to the culvert opening on the south shore.†  (source)
    culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
  • They slosh through the culverts in their rubber boots and swing from trees and from the lower beams of the bridge.†  (source)
    culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
  • In 2000, I found the Mexico City culvert where Enrique waited for a train.†  (source)
    culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
  • 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)
    culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
  • 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)
    culvert = an enclosed channel that carries runoff water beneath something
  • They mined it at night, they stored it in hidden culverts, they were paid in cash, with no questions asked or answered.†  (source)
    culverts = enclosed channels that carry runoff water beneath areas above the water
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