Example sentences for: sewers

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

  • Liquor money bought Nassau better houses, churches, lighting, water, roads, sewers, docks, and hotels.

  • You may say that the wretched of the earth should not be forced to serve as hewers of wood, drawers of water, and sewers of sneakers for the affluent.

  • 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.

  • 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?

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


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