How to Use culvert in a Sentence

culvert

noun
  • The pair then dumped the teen’s nude body in a culvert.
    Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • In the footage, Mesa, patrolling in the culvert on a bike, grabbed one of the boys.
    The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • This grant will provide the funding to put in a culvert.
    Jan Engoren, Sun-Sentinel.com, 8 May 2017
  • The culvert runs under the parking lot north of the soccer area.
    Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • 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 | Crobinson@al.com, 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 city needs permission to build the trail through a culvert under the railroad tracks, Young said.
    Nicholas Sakelaris, star-telegram.com, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Horses are meant to be on all fours, not stuck on their rear ends in a cement culvert.
    Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 28 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Her vehicle left the road and struck a tree and culvert, and came to a stop in a creek bed, officials said.
    Cincinnati.com, 4 Nov. 2017
  • 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
  • The forest is home to cliffs, sinkholes, caves, culverts, and creeks and rivers – all of which complicate the hunt for Couch.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The body was found around 11 a.m. Sunday morning in a culvert beneath a road, Sgt.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Pennington likened the woods around the area to a jungle, with cliff beds, sinkholes, caves and culverts.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The man ran from the wrecked sedan and hid in a nearby culvert, but a police dog led officers to him, Lt.
    David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Her body was later found in a culvert along a gravel road, just miles from property owned by Fravel's parents.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The remote area of the Daniel Boone National Forest encompasses thousands of acres and includes sinkholes, caves, culverts, creeks and rivers.
    Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024

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