Maybe it came in with the back-wash when the drainpipes backed up.

For this reason chloride of lime is an excellent disinfectant of drainpipes.

Water splashed noisily down drainpipes and ran off the edge of the umbrella.

Desire was there, leaking from the drainpipes and heading for the ocean untreated.

You are one of the main drainpipes of English gold.

Sewage and drainpipes fed directly on to the muddy surface.

I know a resourceful pastry chef who adapted slim plastic drainpipes to use as moulds.

I had my own uniform, winter or summer: Wrangler jacket, purple shirt and black drainpipes.

Young men in drainpipes and winklepickers jived to Elvis and Buddy Holly in the amusement arcades.

The drainpipes were clogged with soap, or hair, or something, and the water wasn't draining well.

GAVIN was very keen to draw attention to the "drainpipes".

The vamp quints are happy to turn the courtyard upside down, looking behind flowerpots and inside drainpipes.

John May walked back along the darkened street, trying to avoid the sputtering channels from inundated drainpipes.

One ambitious looter even stole the drainpipes.

They were the heavy iron drainpipes of old, clamped to the brick, not today's lightweight plastic affairs.

They had a place, or rather Eliza did, and Jack could come and go via rooftops and drainpipes.