culvert

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Recent Examples of culvert The stream flows through a box culvert underground, which is now failing, according to the village. Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024 Some aid may continue to be available through other federal agencies such as the Department of Transportation, which could help with rebuilding highways, putting up road barriers and cleaning culverts, Garamendi said. Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 Horses are meant to be on all fours, not stuck on their rear ends in a cement culvert. Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2024 The Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office in Port Washington on Lake Michigan's western shore reported a child's skeleton was found in a culvert on Oct. 4, 1959, in the city of Mequon, nearly 20 miles north of Milwaukee. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for culvert 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for culvert
Noun
  • California’s largest fire in 2024 started when a man pushed a burning car into a ravine near Chico.
    Virginia Iglesias, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Advertisement Hirschfield raped Gonsalves and dumped both of the teenagers’ bodies in a ravine about 30 miles east of Davis in Sacramento County, where they were found by police three days later.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But Kelly had fallen into a gully, obscuring the line of sight of rescuers on the ground.
    Tristan Kennedy, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Officials added that a piece of smoldering material may have been blown into an adjacent, dry gully and caused the rekindling.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In photos obtained by Metro from the scene, the white car could be seen partially underwater in a ditch while leaning to the side.
    Escher Walcott, People.com, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Trucks lost control on icy roads and went spiraling into ditches, and pileups backed up traffic on interstate highways across the Midwest.
    Nazaneen Ghaffar, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Preliminary estimates found that filling in the interstate trench would cost $2.4 billion to $3.2 billion, compared to $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion to reconfigure the freeway within its existing footprint.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In the photo, there's a line around the moon's equator that resembles the equatorial trench around the Death Star.
    Ailsa Harvey, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There have also been reports of streets flooding in the L.A. area due to clogged drains.
    Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The years of positive reviews preceded a Dec. 28 crash with a Brightline train, where Wyatt drove a $1 million ladder truck onto the tracks with the crossing gates lowered as the high-speed passenger drain barreled toward it.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Culvert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culvert. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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