Example sentences for: sewer

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

  • And although the ancestors of some Puzzos might have lived near a well ( puzza dialect for pozzo well or fountain), the forebears of others may have smelled like a sewer ( puzzo stench).

  • For Murakami's reader, it conjures up the excitement and terror, the white hots and the blue colds, of childhood treks through a storm sewer system.

  • This is a city where Mayor Marion Barry, after his release from prison, tried to give a contract to lay sewer pipe to his friend Rock Newman, a boxing promoter.

  • Provision of basic public health services were compromised, including repairing antiquated water and sewer systems, resulting in increased risk for gastroenteritis and infections with hepatitis A [ 11 ] ; the largest documented outbreak of typhoid in this century occurred in Tajikistan in February 1997 [ 12 ] . Practices such as reusing syringes during vaccination and poor sterilization procedures during dentistry have contributed to nosocomial outbreaks of HIV and a high prevalence of infections with hepatitis B [ 13 ] .

  • But water in Turkey is much more likely to be contaminated in other ways, especially ruptured sewer lines that dump bacteria into reservoirs and aquifers.


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