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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Pennington likened the woods around the area to a jungle, with cliff beds, sinkholes, caves and culverts.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
• 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 project includes the removal of 150 feet of culvert along with junction boxes.
  — Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• 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 traveled off the road to the right and struck a culvert before coming to a rest.
  — Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2019
• The death of a man whose body was found Monday in a Dakota County culvert has been ruled a homicide.
  — Alex Chhith, Star Tribune, 28 Apr. 2021
• Many are beside creeks and in drainage culverts, where storm water and flash floods pose a constant threat.
  — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• The girl was driving a 2007 Honda Accord and didn’t turn before a curve, leading the car off the left side of the road and into a culvert.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2021
• Damming the culvert threatened the highway — the only access point to Allensworth at the time — and the rail tracks that run parallel to it.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• River banks and culverts may also become unstable and unsafe.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024