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Meanings of open manhole in English

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Usage of open manhole in English
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Move. He pointed into the depths revealed by the open manhole cover.
Neverwhere
2
He looked into the half- open manhole, saw the ladder, and started down.
The waste lands
3
The men above began to feed a power cable through the open manhole.
Phantoms
4
Constant leaned over the open manhole, listened to the water sounds.
The Sirens of Titan
5
Above him he heard the soldiers pass the open manhole.
The Mad King
6
The open manhole wafted up noisome stenches from below.
Perdido Street Station
7
Then the light levels rose and he spotted the shaft of light that marked the open manhole.
The Slab
8
A two-headed monster-marionette stumbled and splashed in the pale circle of gray cast by the open manhole.
206 Bones
9
Wading through waterlogged streets last month, one of the city's top doctors disappeared down an open manhole.
Reuters
10
They were dropping, one by one, through the open manhole, into which their comrades had apparently already vanished.
Seize the night
11
A young man had thrown a bomb into an open manhole outside her building a few minutes before I arrived.
The Irish Times
12
Asa Partridge, the yard superintendent, a man past fifty, stood on the platform deck, looking down through the open manhole.
The Submarine Boys on Duty / Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat
13
It was more than two feet across and perfectly round, as if it were an open manhole in a city street.
Summer of Night
14
The voices of street children living underground among hotwater pipes echoed up through open manholes.
The Irish Times
15
It found these risks were caused by developers failing to complete sewerage systems, water contamination, unfinished roads and open manholes.
The Irish Times
16
The consulate has since added a single sentence to its online advisory, saying open manholes are sometimes marked with tree branches.
Reuters
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