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Meanings of open sewer in English

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Usage of open sewer in English
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Adele smelled the camp before she saw it-it smelled like an open sewer.
Transgression: a novel of love and war
2
He inhaled the scent of the open sewer, the steaming waste, and sighed.
Orb Sceptre Throne
3
In the soggy alley of an open sewer lay two bodies.
Orb Sceptre Throne
4
Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The Guardian
5
Pointed cobbles form the pavement, and leave a dirty open sewer in the middle.
Cæsar or Nothing
6
His room looked out on to an open sewer.
Faerie Wars
7
The river was used as an open sewer.
Death du Jour
8
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Urban Health Programme research shows how leptospirosis cases are concentrated near an open sewer.
The Guardian
9
A small stream trickling through the middle of the clearing into the river was an open sewer.
The Reality Dysfunction
10
So I leaned forward and let the beast take his chance of uneven causeway and open sewer.
The Red Axe
11
An open sewer runs under one section.
Reuters
12
It always smelled incredibly, almost unbelievably bad -like there was an open sewer on the sidewalk.
BBC
13
Many sailors have described the conditions as "sailing in a toilet" or an " open sewer".
The Guardian
14
Many families in Butler and Lowndes counties choose to live with open sewer systems made from PVC pipe.
The Guardian
15
In the heatwave of 1858, the stagnating open sewer outside Westminster's windows fermented and boiled under the scorching sun.
The Guardian
16
This was the great pestiferous open sewer that stole into a filthy existence under the name of the Washington Canal.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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