A covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it.
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Examples for "sink "
Examples for "sink "
1 We sink in water; in air we tumble; on earth we stumble.
2 I find that the problem with math education is the sink - orswim approach.
3 It must let him fall and sink into the sea, he thought.
4 Until then, federal and state governments should be in 'kitchen sink ' mode.
5 It's not as though public opinion of politics could sink any lower.
1 Before long they came to a second sump that stopped them cold.
2 Cavers always try, first, to find a dry way past a sump .
3 Grabbing hold, he followed the line to the end of the sump .
4 By the time they reached the sump , terminal exhaustion was setting in.
5 He explored three corners of the sump , finding blank walls each time.
1 You know how possessive he is about that cesspool company of yours.
2 I see the plumbers, the cesspool cleaners, the colorless all-color of atheism.
3 It is dismaying to learn that the human mouth is a cesspool .
4 The Libya catastophe By all accounts, Libya is currently a cesspool for terrorism.
5 Perhaps it had been a cesspool before the sewers were built under London.
1 He could fall in a cesspit and come up smelling like roses.
2 She didn't look like she had ever set foot in the vile cesspit .
3 The auction house on the outskirts of Chicago didn't look like a cesspit .
4 Like finding a single perfect lily floating on a cesspit .
5 Sometimes Twitter is not just a cesspit full of people who love to hate.
6 Your head like a cesspit , full of horrible speculation about what might have happened.
7 And the cesspit described as possibly dating from the sixth century is, in fact, medieval.
8 Now she lives in the heart of the junkie cesspit called the Lower East Side.
9 That might be a dragon's cesspit over there, yes.
10 Standing is a necessity.Truly a cesspit of everything that is crass about twenty-first century football.'
11 A cesspit should never be located under a dwelling.
12 Periwinkle Street, on the other hand, was a cesspit .
13 What were you doing in that White Court cesspit ?
14 It was an open cesspit , a vast lagoon full of waste from the pig farm.
15 If they'd survived, they'd gone back into their emergence holes to whatever cesspit they came from.
16 Instead of the moral cesspit it is now.
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