How to Use sewer in a Sentence

sewer

noun

• David Twohy: The chase through the storm drains was my homage to the sewer sequence in Les Misérables.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• There was a faint scummy smell as well, as if of a sewer.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
• Meeker said the sinkhole is over a sewer line where there was a leak.
  — Remington Miller, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2023
• The fighters slept during the day in bunkers the Nazis couldn’t easily find, and came out of the sewers to fight at night.
  — Dinah Spritzer, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2023
• In the late 1700s, Collect Pond Park was the site of a small body of water that had become an open sewer as the city grew.
  — Bobby Caina Calvan, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
• The sheer amount of water overwhelmed the city’s sewer system.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• Its look had a street level grittiness that matched the sewer stylings of New York.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
• The girls had their own room, and the boys had one, too — a luxury in their neighborhood of open sewers and dirt roads.
  — Lynsey Chutel Gulshan Khan, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• In the video, Troconis can be seen leaning out of the truck and touching her hand to the sidewalk near the sewer opening.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2024
• And, of course, the resort will have all the nuts and bolts RV'ers need, like water and sewer hookups, electricity, and Wi-Fi.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2023
• Eyes peeking out from a sewer grate, putting googly eyes on a fire hydrant.
  — Vanessa Infanzon, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Shelby is overseeing the water and sewer work at Blue Lake Park in Fairview.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2023
• The story involves a kid who sees a bill for the amount in question through a sewer grate and, hoping to fish it out, dangles his belt through the openings.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2023
• Then the 2018 earthquake hit, and the water and sewer systems came apart entirely.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
• Police found the body shortly after 1:00 a.m. Friday in a drainage sewer, Bryant said.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2024
• There are no water or sewer hookups, but those looking for a septic dump can find one nearby for $1.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
• Cleanout plug: an access hole to a sewer line, located outside of the building.
  — John Jeremiah Sullivan, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Much has been made of the discovery of infected rats living near New York sewers.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
• Old sewers like New York’s, which process both waste and storm water, were built to handle only a couple of inches of rain per hour.
  — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Campers can pitch their tent at one of the sites or reserve one of the campground’s many RV sites, which have sewer, water, electricity, and up to 50 amp plug-ins.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• Among them are the London Underground, the world’s oldest metro system, and the city’s sewer system, which date to the mid-19th century.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• Mangled pipes poured sewer water into what remained of the road.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2023
• The city brought it back in 2019 and keeps it going with funding from its sewer and sanitation budget.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 May 2023
• Mount Airy water and sewer customers will see an increase in their bills starting Sept. 1.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2023
• Elsewhere in Italy, tourists routinely swim in Venice’s canals, which double as the city’s sewer system.
  — Caolán Magee, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• The sewer opened into a stretch of roadside shanty-shops, where a heavyset young man was waiting—G-Pep’s third-in-command.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Using mulch that crusts over in the summer can result in sending all that valuable water out to the street and down the storm sewer rather than soaking into the ground.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2023
• Freeman’s firm is working on a new water and sewer master plan for Elgin, which will replace the last one done 12 years ago.
  — Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• One draft study of wastewater samples in a northwest Texas town found that signs of H5N1 have surged in sewers, but also that emergency room trends in the area were declining at the same time.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 May 2024
• Sometimes, however, firefighters have to climb down a bit into the sewer to retrieve the ducklings.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024