How to Use drainpipe in a Sentence

drainpipe

noun

• Then, turn on the faucet to fill the drainpipe and bottom of the sink with water.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2020
• Loosen the two compression fittings that hold the trap to the drainpipe.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2021
• Install an air-gap catch basin on the unit and run a full-size drainpipe to the nearest floor drain.
  — Merle Henkenius, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2021
• Where is the planetary drainpipe where all that stuff goes?
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
• Fagan climbed the palace walls, scaled a drainpipe, and entered through a window.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• The single piece of prime real estate for perching is the upper side of a drainpipe that juts through the sea wall.
  — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 May 2018
• Set a bucket under the P-trap and disconnect the drainpipes.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 20 Aug. 2019
• Fagan first shimmied up a drainpipe and through a window.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 27 Dec. 2020
• And a discharge hose runs from the softener tank to a nearby drainpipe or drywell.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2022
• Every spring a buddleia takes root behind the drainpipe.
  — Longreads, 15 June 2018
• Add more water to the drainpipe, if necessary, and repeat.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2020
• Make sure the discharge pipe is lined up properly and connect your drainpipes—use a T-pipe before your P-trap.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 20 Aug. 2019
• Baltazar then ran from police and hid in a drainpipe before he was found and arrested.
  — Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• In the basement of his childhood home, his dad installed a full-size basketball rim positioned on a pole down in the drainpipe.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
• To release the stopper, disconnect the rods, then unscrew the nut where the horizontal rod enters the drainpipe.
  — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
• As a boy who liked to climb drainpipes and jump off things, Scott Kelly had the daredevil courage that would lead him to become an astronaut and spend more than 500 days in space.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2017
• The volume of water and its movement through the sand requires 17 miles of perforated drainpipe.
  — Bradley S. Klein, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• Heaps of pallets, drainpipes, cables and, what’s this? – a decapitated mailbox – get drenched in the rain.
  — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 28 Aug. 2017
• The cause of the sinkhole had not been determined, but a leaky drainpipe under the pavement might be responsible, Wonder said.
  — Kim Christensen, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• However, while the drainpipe seems like a bottomless whirlpool, the hole is actually about 20 feet deep.
  — Jennifer Adler, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• The plan involves 30 feet of plastic drainpipe from the hardware store, those clear plastic capsules that pop out of vending machines … and a really creepy alien.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 26 Oct. 2020
• The camera is mounted on a tilt-and-pan head so that the operator can carefully turn it in hard-to-view places: inside a drainpipe, underneath bridges, or over walls.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 17 June 2020
• In his scheme, an array of long vertical tubes, hanging like drainpipes from enormous floating rings, reach down into the cold water.
  — National Geographic, 13 Oct. 2017
• Who wanted to hear about a bunch of pretentious kids in leather jackets and drainpipe trousers playing guitars (ugh, so declassé) in sleazy punk dives after midnight?
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2022
• The condensate line drains condensation from the overflow pan to the outside or directly into a drainpipe.
  — Joe Truini, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2017
• The majority was captured by winery pumps and drainpipes leading to vineyard ponds, as well as pumping of the creek by a third party company and Rodney Strong staff.
  — Ellen Fort, Sunset Magazine, 24 Jan. 2020
• Two days later, another air conditioner was taken from the main office, requiring the thief to scale a 15-foot drainpipe.
  — cleveland, 4 Nov. 2022
• At the same time, growers continue to use less freshwater for irrigation and draw more water recycled from city drainpipes.
  — Nathanael Johnson, WIRED, 24 May 2018
• One newspaper describes them scaling the drainpipe and entering through an apartment window.
  — Brett Forrest, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2006
• This is what happens when failing infrastructure, in this case an underground drainpipe, meets weather’s new normal: stronger storms and more intense rainfall.
  — Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024