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Meanings of sewer in anglès

portuguès
redes de esgotos
català
clavegueram

A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.

clavegueram

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money.

System of pipes, usually underground, for carrying waste water and human waste away from houses and other buildings, to a place where they can be safely get rid of.

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Examples for "sewerage system"
Examples for "sewerage system"
1
Only 31 of the Maldives' inhabited islands have a proper sewerage system.
The Guardian
2
She is making fake faeces to try and improve Bangladesh's sewerage system.
Radio NZ
3
Military helicopters will airlift pipes into Kaikoura to help rebuild the sewerage system.
Radio NZ
4
About 71 percent have no connection to a public sewerage system.
Reuters
5
The current sewerage system is clearly outdated, overloaded and being mismanaged.
The South African
Usage of sewer in anglès
1
If there is gas, dive into the water; sewer gas rises, remember.
The hunchback assignments
2
The council plans to replace the broken sewer main by 24 July.
Radio NZ
3
Highway projects, airport work, sewer lines-withouttheir clearance, no ground is broken.
Fatal Voyage
4
It went right through that grin like sewer water through a grate.
The gunslinger
5
The percentage who hid in the sewer system was larger this year.
The Status Civilization
6
The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off.
Les Misérables
7
The rain, which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it.
Les Misérables
8
He said something about a sewer and a hole in the ground.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
9
Of one, Kay the sewer and Bedevere the cupbearer were the captains.
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
10
The inmates of Greenwich Village were employed in sewer and road-construction work.
The new yorker
11
Incapable of further mischief, it lies in the sewer, lifeless and despised.
Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
12
Chane emerged from a sewer grate somewhere in the city's second ring.
Thief of lives
13
Whitney would've crawled through a sewer pipe to make a good impression.
Spike
14
Behind them he could see the sewer-pipe they had come out of.
IT
15
The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task.
Les Misérables
16
I felt the same about the Vanguard in the sewer, he said.
Guild wars: ghosts of ascalon
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Ireland
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