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    Use "drainage" in a sentence

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    drainage


    1. "Not without a different drainage pattern


    2. He obviously threw garbage and voided himself somewhere in here without any thought of drainage, he must have just let it build up


    3. drainage of pluvial waters wel studied; the


    4. I didn't stop till they were all lying dead in the drainage ditch


    5. The water system had a reservoir that still appeared to be full and they could use a drainage valve as a tap to dispense it


    6. The drainage valve made a very slow tap and as they could only fill one tub at a time it took quite some time to fill a reasonable number of them


    7. The drainage system for the homes and businesses was quite intricate


    8. Every week he had to organise fixing energy supplies, electrical problems, drainage issues, replacing worn out heat insulation, getting damaged doors and windows fixed


    9. It was not as well maintained as our last section had been the drainage was bad and the dugouts were a bit on the small side and did not look that well constructed


    10. I knew from the dried drainage stains on the stockings and the foul odor coming from the area that her legs were badly infected

    11. The work of cleansing the capital was aided by the unfinished system of drainage and the splendid water supply


    12. Democrats have been shamefully exploiting this unhappy event for political reasons; unyielding in their persistence that poverty and racism are (somehow) the underlying factors responsible for this (―avoidable‖) tragedy when, in fact, it was the result of ―unintended‖ consequences precipitated by decades of political cynicism, cronyism, mis-management, fiscal incompetence and (local) corruption at every conceivable level; this despite the forewarnings of field experts (Army Corps of Engineers) citing potential or probably breaches in drainage canal levees since the Johnson Administration


    13. The Mediterranean Sea, being largely landlocked, may have been more greatly affected by large inflows of meltwater from all over its north-shore drainage basins, particularly the lands north of the Adriatic and Aegean Seas


    14. As I’ve indicated earlier in this chapter, “the Mediterranean Sea, being largely landlocked, may have been more greatly affected by large inflows of meltwater from all over its north shore drainage basins particularly the lands north of the Adriatic and Aegean Seas


    15. The days passed by quickly as one by one the drainage canals were repaired and upgraded


    16. “While the flood still covers everything”—his words seemed careful, measured, almost hesitant—“the drainage canals run across the flow


    17. greywater flow out of the sink into the drainage tube and how to hook


    18. His hand found the siding of the massive drainage pipe, and he swung himself


    19. They initially had a trailer while looking for their eventual permanent home in Scottsdale, several blocks north of Camelback Road and three blocks east of the Pima reservation where “the Indian who drank,” Ira Hayes, drowned drunk facedown in a few inches of water in a drainage ditch


    20. to have a drainage contractor come in and try

    21. He dodged around an abandoned jeep that was in flames, and slid into a drainage ditch barely 50 yards from Bunker Six


    22. "See that fuzzy line down there in the dark?" the Wolf said indicating the drainage ditch where Buey Dan lay


    23. The two men grabbed their M-16s from corner mounts, dismounted, and leaped the drainage ditch between the jeep and the cemetery


    24. And, to top it off, there was something wrong with the drainage system,


    25. to hold the drainage tube there in place; a third tube had been inserted into the reopened


    26. „Anyway, Tony had been surveying this bit of coast; the rivers, drainage, land-forms, tidal bars, frequency and levels of storm surges - that sort of thing


    27. It was hard physical work involving road works and drainage in all weathers and the hours were long


    28. From there it connected to the CN internal drainage system that ran under the factory


    29. It had worked very well so far, as a Drug dispensing and distribution area, once all the alterations and refurbishing had been completed and the pitch was again conducive to official matches, the drainage perfect


    30. The drainage looks clearer, too

    31. Holes in your lawn, as well as low spots, can cause drainage problems


    32. The air conditioner has to be installed on a flat surface, since it would help its drainage system and other mechanisms to work properly


    33. Use leftover styrofoam peanuts as great drainage in the bottom of a pot


    34. The drainage will surely attract insects


    35. David laughed as they made their way to a drainage culvert so they could leave the base


    36. By the time anyone realized the ship was empty, Luther and David had cleared the perimeter fence and were scuttling along the drainage ditch on the far side of the highway


    37. drainage ditch that was along side this part of the trail


    38. Convinced that Úrsula would carry the secret to her grave, Aureliano Segundo hired a crew of diggers under the pretext that they were making some drainage canals in the courtyard and the backyard, and he himself took soundings in the earth with iron bars and all manner of metal-detectors without finding anything that resembled gold in three months of exhaustive exploration


    39. Scrutinizing the façade to see if there was a way to climb it, she noticed a number of steel pipes running down the walls at intervals and understood that they were rainwater drainage pipes coming from the roof


    40. Then, with the teenager still clinging to her back, she stepped outside and reached for the drainage pipe, grabbing it and hugging it, so that the teenager could grab herself the pipe and slide down

    41. � Walking directly North from her landing point, she hit a road after covering half a mile, then turned West and followed the drainage ditch alongside the road


    42. It was a patchwork of thousands of small fields enclosed by almost impenetrable hedges, consisting of dense thickets of hawthorn and brambles, up to five metres in height, with a drainage ditch on either side


    43. The drainage ditches were also deathtraps for tanks


    44. Still, it’s apparent that early Indus Valley civilization was advanced for its time, as towns were typically laid out in rectilinear grid fashion with well-constructed brick buildings and extensive water and drainage works; as demonstrated in the important Harappan urban centers of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro


    45. With this sort of arrangement, however, drainage trenches are usually required in the event of rain


    46. Their group was jumping in the drainage ditch as the two AC-142G gunships, flying just below the gray clouds covering the sky, were lining up on the hills to the South


    47. Okay so maybe when we had looked at the architecture with mild interest on our way in, this hadn’t actually translated into observation of any particular features as we soon realised that one colonnade and another looked distressingly similar, two cupolas were indistinguishable and iron work bridges over drainage ditches had clearly been breeding like the Welsh since we had walked this way


    48. There was also a toilet chair, with a bucket sitting under it, but no actual plumbing except for lead water drainage pipes for the bathtub and the sink


    49. Most large abscesses require incision (cut into the abscess) and drainage to release the pus collected to prevent infection spreading further and causing septic shock


    50. In my family practice I must have done at least a hundred incisions and drainage of the stye








































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    Synonyms for "drainage"

    drain drainage

    "drainage" definitions

    emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it