How to Use culvert in a Sentence

culvert

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  • Try near points, culverts and run-outs created from rainfall.
    — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018
  • Out of a culvert that runs parallel to the freeway, several more appear.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, www.latimes.com, 7 June 2018
  • The street will be closed to all traffic as crews begin removing and replacing the culvert at Carpenter Creek.
    — Michelle Mullins, Elgin Courier-News, 22 June 2018
  • Hubbard said the culvert and embankment repair project is one of the county's most significant projects because of the extent of damage.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2018
  • Heavy rains during a 2017 storm caused an embankment and culvert on Van Blaricum to collapse.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 8 June 2018
  • The two opted out of desperation to cross illegally, wandering through a drying concrete culvert along the border as night approached.
    — Morgan Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018
  • Authorities said the road should reopen the week of July 13, after the culvert replacement is complete.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 27 June 2018
  • The pair then dumped the teen’s nude body in a culvert.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • The river and culvert were about 20 feet down from the road.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The driver, Cameron Toth, 18 of Auburn, drove off the road, struck a mailbox, a culvert and a tree.
    — cleveland, 24 May 2021
  • Culvert curve: Crews are realigning the sharp curve in the road near the culvert.
    — oregonlive, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The two teens were in a 2008 GMC Sierra that left the roadway, struck a culvert, and overturned.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The concrete culvert is just a sliver of the larger Hwy.
    — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Rivers were put in culverts partly to contain the smell.
    — David N Lerner, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Rocks and a drainage culvert were added at the base of the slope, and the hillside was graded and covered with plastic tarps.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • That means hauling the rocks across part of the Smith Family Gateway, just north of the culvert.
    — Steven Litt, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
  • With the culvert flow blocked, runoff backed up and eventually flowed across the surface of the road.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2022
  • The ramp closed Wednesday to allow crews to repair the hole at the culvert over Southern Ditch.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019
  • The tools were hidden under the street culvert near Judge Smith’s house and their horse was tied to the fence near his stable.
    — Mary Ann Ashcraft, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The culvert helps the river stay to its natural course.
    — Millie Brigaud, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
  • The pipe rusted out and water traveled around the culvert.
    — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
  • Take your pedestal seat down and lay on your back to slide your boat beneath a culvert or a walkway.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 10 July 2024
  • The culvert is located just north of Orchard Park and just south of Gable Lane.
    — cleveland, 27 June 2020
  • The car hit a ditch and a culvert before flying into the air and landing in the ditch, troopers said.
    — Eric Besson, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Two days later her body was found 10 miles away in a culvert near I-90 in Turah.
    — Robert Gearty, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Large rocks the road department placed alongside the road and new, big culverts now keep the road intact.
    — David Showers, Lance Brownfield/hot Springs Sentinel-Record, Arkansas Online, 12 May 2023
  • Lora is also looking for funds to surround the culvert with a large fence that curves at the top.
    — Topher Sanders, ProPublica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The north pond on the former golf course is connected to the Skokie River by a culvert.
    — Karen Berkowitz, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The motorcycle then struck a culvert, became airborne, collided with a tree head-on, then rolled onto its side before coming to a final rest.
    — Parker Mancino, arkansasonline.com, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Some of this involves classic infrastructure investment: culverts can be widened, pumps installed, and impoundment dams built.
    — Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018

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