Example sentences for: manhole

How can you use “manhole” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In End of Days the devil is first seen as a transparent watery wrinkle that rises out of a manhole and sashays into the men's room of a restaurant, whereupon it makes a forcible entry into the body of a prominent investment banker played by Gabriel Byrne.

  • And I'll bet the Times national edition didn't include the story about the special new millennium commemorative-edition manhole covers ConEd is installing.

  • Manhole covers welded closed; trash cans removed; mailboxes locked; 8,000 cops; five police helicopters--it was like Christmas in Tel Aviv, except for the part about any known threat.

  • Journalists and other commentators have sometimes taken a facetious view of the situation, suggesting that person , itself, is sexist because -son denotes `male offspring,' that words like manhole are sexist, and that even woman ( wo + man ) is sexist.

  • A lot of big-deal movie stars could walk into an open manhole and our lives would not be appreciably poorer.


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