Example sentences for: sewers

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

  • How could the testimony of a man like Chambers, Hiss asked with icy contempt, visibly unkempt, overweight, and "forbiddingly drab" (in Lionel Trilling's phrase), with no style and little personal status, a man who had lived, in Hiss' words, "in the sewers, plotting against his native land," possibly outweigh the simple facts of Hiss' career as Harvard graduate, trusted aide to FDR at Yalta, and one of the architects of the United Nations?

  • Bearing down, Feldman gets him to admit that his real duties are to "beg for money for sewers."

  • The wall started out as barbed wire and road blocks, but refugees continued to make their way through the barriers, by swimming through sewers and canals and jumping from buildings and railway bridges — risking life and limb for freedom and democracy.

  • Low-density areas don't pay enough taxes to subsidize the roads, schools, and sewers they require.

  • By organizing cutters first, unions gained the leverage with which they could then organize and represent the much larger, but less skilled, group of sewers who worked in factory settings, particularly in the men’s industry, or in the small shops that characterized the women’s industry.


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