How to Use water main in a Sentence

water main

noun

• The water main burst and flooded the street.
• Bagley said this is the third water main break in the past four days.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2022
• It was forced to close for half of the 2019 season due to a large water main break.
  — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Oct. 2020
• This is the most recent water main break to occur in the area over the past few days.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• When a water main breaks or a bridge crumbles, the city is held back.
  — Carl Swanson, Curbed, 19 July 2021
• The water main break occurred in the two eastbound lanes on the south side of Highland Road.
  — cleveland, 8 Dec. 2021
• Over the past month, there have also been three water main breaks.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2024
• Mulcahy said the goal is to start construction of the water main next year.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 3 Aug. 2023
• At each site, a worker breaks ground by the curb and digs straight down near the water main beneath the street.
  — Kevin Armstrong, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• And that was before a water main break forced them to relocate in the middle of the night.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2023
• As a result, the city is starting to see more water main breaks.
  — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• About a month ago, a water main near his parents' home burst.
  — Pien Huang, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• Crew members repaired the water main overnight and recharged the systems.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
• Those who weren’t killed were drowned when a burst water main flooded the wreckage.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
• Up to 80 water main breaks were reported between the time the storm hit and March 1.
  — Sarah Haselhorst, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2021
• The break of the 42-inch Dorsh Road water main is on a main not used for direct service to customers.
  — cleveland, 5 July 2020
• Many homes still have privately owned lead pipes that connect to the water main in the street.
  — Eric Roper, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• Officials at the time suspected the mound was due to a water main break.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2021
• Officials said part of the road had been closed off while a work crew repaired a water main break in the area.
  — Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2021
• To the left of the centrifuge is a trio of fiberglass/epoxy tanks that used to be part of Seaside’s water main system.
  — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2021
• The victim was part of a work crew replacing a water main.
  — Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Video from the scene showed three water main breaks occur in the area within a two-hour time span Monday.
  — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
• When the water main burst last Friday, officials had to divert water to the west side of the base.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2022
• The water main is being replaced from roughly Ohio Street to Edgewood Drive, in both the 2nd and 7th wards.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• Lead pipes were often used to connect homes to the water main before they were banned in 1986.
  — Mira Cheng, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
• Sand and rocks covered the pavement, which cracked and warped when the water main broke Saturday.
  — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
• That translates into about 1,400 miles of water main pipes throughout the city.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 23 Aug. 2023
• The extended heat and lack of rain has caused the ground to shift in Fort Worth, Texas, causing nearly 200 water main breaks over the last month.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• An eighty-year-old water main ruptured on a recent Friday in Atlanta.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• On Saturday, a broken water main pushed sand into the city sewer line, causing sewage to back up and discharge into a nearby storm drain.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024