How to Use culvert in a Sentence

culvert

noun

• Try near points, culverts and run-outs created from rainfall.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
• Out of a culvert that runs parallel to the freeway, several more appear.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, www.latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• The street will be closed to all traffic as crews begin removing and replacing the culvert at Carpenter Creek.
  — Michelle Mullins, Elgin Courier-News, 22 June 2018
• Hubbard said the culvert and embankment repair project is one of the county's most significant projects because of the extent of damage.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2018
• Heavy rains during a 2017 storm caused an embankment and culvert on Van Blaricum to collapse.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2018
• The two opted out of desperation to cross illegally, wandering through a drying concrete culvert along the border as night approached.
  — Morgan Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
• Authorities said the road should reopen the week of July 13, after the culvert replacement is complete.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
• The pair then dumped the teen’s nude body in a culvert.
  — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
• The river and culvert were about 20 feet down from the road.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• The driver, Cameron Toth, 18 of Auburn, drove off the road, struck a mailbox, a culvert and a tree.
  — cleveland, 24 May 2021
• Culvert curve: Crews are realigning the sharp curve in the road near the culvert.
  — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
• The two teens were in a 2008 GMC Sierra that left the roadway, struck a culvert, and overturned.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2021
• The concrete culvert is just a sliver of the larger Hwy.
  — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
• Rivers were put in culverts partly to contain the smell.
  — David N Lerner, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
• Rocks and a drainage culvert were added at the base of the slope, and the hillside was graded and covered with plastic tarps.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• That means hauling the rocks across part of the Smith Family Gateway, just north of the culvert.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
• With the culvert flow blocked, runoff backed up and eventually flowed across the surface of the road.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2022
• The ramp closed Wednesday to allow crews to repair the hole at the culvert over Southern Ditch.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019
• The tools were hidden under the street culvert near Judge Smith’s house and their horse was tied to the fence near his stable.
  — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Oct. 2020
• The culvert helps the river stay to its natural course.
  — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• The pipe rusted out and water traveled around the culvert.
  — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
• Take your pedestal seat down and lay on your back to slide your boat beneath a culvert or a walkway.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 10 July 2024
• The culvert is located just north of Orchard Park and just south of Gable Lane.
  — cleveland, 27 June 2020
• The car hit a ditch and a culvert before flying into the air and landing in the ditch, troopers said.
  — Eric Besson, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2020
• Two days later her body was found 10 miles away in a culvert near I-90 in Turah.
  — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2020
• Large rocks the road department placed alongside the road and new, big culverts now keep the road intact.
  — David Showers, Lance Brownfield/hot Springs Sentinel-Record, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2023
• Lora is also looking for funds to surround the culvert with a large fence that curves at the top.
  — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2021
• The north pond on the former golf course is connected to the Skokie River by a culvert.
  — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• The motorcycle then struck a culvert, became airborne, collided with a tree head-on, then rolled onto its side before coming to a final rest.
  — Parker Mancino, arkansasonline.com, 18 Aug. 2024
• Some of this involves classic infrastructure investment: culverts can be widened, pumps installed, and impoundment dams built.
  — Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024