How to Use sewage in a Sentence

sewage

noun

• The first of them was the sewage running in the street.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 24 July 2023
• The sky cracks, streams of light pour over the busted sewage pipe, and then the sky dumps rain.
  — Hazlitt, 29 May 2024
• And then the sewage system can just deal with the sewage and not have to deal with the stormwater.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
• This has all led to plenty of sewage in the streets — the perfect recipe for the spread of polio.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024
• The landmark system removed 95% of the bacteria from the city’s sewage and 90% of the solids.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
• The issue is that with so many new toilets, the sewage needs to go somewhere.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Cracked walls, mold, sewage backups, even the risk of electric shock.
  — Chris Hacker, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Once landed, a truck connects to the tank, draws all the waste out and takes it to the local sewage system.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
• But in the meantime, residents still have to deal with sewage spillage.
  — Josh Feldman, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Luckily, as the final photo shows, all the muck from the sewage drain washed off.
  — Kelli Bender, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• Rio Verde Foothills doesn't have a sewage system or water mains.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 16 Jan. 2023
• There were fires and a burst sewage pipe, forcing employees to wade through waste.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Aug. 2023
• The list of reasons for the longstanding sewage crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is long.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 May 2024
• The decision from Sturgeon is not the first hit to the rising cost of the sewage-recycling plan.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• The places were affordable because there weren’t any perks: no sewage, no gas.
  — Curbed, 23 Dec. 2023
• The researchers stress that this does not mean people are getting sick from sewage in sea spray aerosol.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 3 Mar. 2023
• The facility is the largest sewage treatment plant in Washington and the third largest on the West Coast.
  — Fox News, 16 Sep. 2022
• To this day, when there are heavy rains and too much water flows into the sewers, raw sewage flows into the canal.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2024
• And over the past two years, the CDC and its partners have built up the network of local testing sites to track the sewage of more than a third of the country.
  — Luke Groskin, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2022
• Al-Barbari said food and water are scarce, and his tent was even flooded with sewage.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2023
• My neighbor’s sink overflowed with sewage a few weeks ago, bubbling over the rim of the sink and leaking onto the floor.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 21 Feb. 2023
• Around the world, treated sewage solids are still commonly burned or buried.
  — Bryn Nelson, CNN, 6 Sep. 2022
• One quibble: When the waters are calm a distinct aroma, the area smells a little like sewage.
  — Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Rain overwhelmed the system, which sent sewage into Lake Erie.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
• At some moments, Collins’ efforts to hold truth to power seemed akin to trying to stop a burst sewage pipe with a wine cork.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2023
• In Golovin, streets were flooded with seawater and sewage.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• The new legislation could cost bosses who spill sewage in rivers, lakes, and seas their bonus.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 12 Feb. 2024
• If there's more rain than the ground or sewage can absorb, that extra water flows downhill — a flash flood.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• Like the vast sewage networks lying underneath the streets of cities like London and Paris, the intestines are responsible for channelling and processing the putrid wastes of the body.
  — Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
• Sadly, her family photo albums didn’t survive the 3 feet of sewage water that rushed into her basement.
  — Karina Atkins, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024