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Meanings of sewer in English

Portuguese
redes de esgotos
Catalan
clavegueram

A waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water.

redes de esgotos

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money.

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Examples for "sewerage"
Examples for "sewerage"
1
Domestic' water and sewerage charges raise £53 million annually for local authorities.
The Irish Times
2
The Integrated Water Cycle segment includes mains water, purification and sewerage services.
Reuters
3
Breathe deeply as you pass the sewerage pumping in to the sea.
The South African
4
Smith who had been responsible for pushing through water and sewerage improvements.
The new yorker
5
Another bankruptcy-related settlement over Detroit's water and sewerage department is steaming ahead.
Reuters
1
Only think of that cloaca being supplied daily with such dainty bibliographical treasures!
The Enemies of Books
2
The outlet is sometimes called the branchial pore, and sometimes the cloaca or ejection-aperture.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
3
My Borromean chain had been pulled, and I was sliding down the cloaca maxima.
Engineering Infinity
4
Its throbbing intensified and a low growl resonated up and down the intestine-like cloaca.
Existence
5
They take their name from the cloaca which they share with all the lower Vertebrates.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2

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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Usage of sewer in English
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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